Pierre Marie Giraud is pleased to present a joint exhibition of works by Bijoy Jain and Makiko Hattori, on view from Thursday 5 March to Saturday 11 April. The exhibition marks the first presentation at the gallery of both artists. Gathering a focused selection of furniture pieces, stone seats and spatial structures alongside ceramic sculptures, the exhibition offers a quiet space of attention and reflection, highlights a shared sensitivity to time, gesture, and the elemental presence of light, air, and matter.

Born in 1965 in Mumbai, Jain lives and works in India, where he founded Studio Mumbai in the mid 1990s. The studio functions as an interdisciplinary workshop of architects, engineers, master builders, artisans and technicians, in which process and duration are understood as integral to form. For this exhibition, Jain presents works that bring architectural thinking to the scale of the hand and the body. Benches, chairs, lamps, bamboo mats, and stone blocks are installed in relation to larger stone and bamboo structures. Conceived as parallel studies to his building projects, these pieces grow out of a slow, direct engagement with materials.

Hattori, a distinctive voice in contemporary Japanese ceramics, presents sculptures whose surfaces appear almost weightless despite being formed from fired clay. Built from countless tiny elements applied one by one, her works create a quiet tension between softness and sharpness. What looks soft from a distance reveals a finely articulated surface from nearby. Often left unglazed, these forms catch and reflect light in subtle shifts and shadows.

The exhibition offers a setting in which space, material and light can be quietly experienced, and in which the relation between use and contemplation unfolds at a gentle pace.

We invite you to join us for the opening on Thursday 5 March, from 5 to 8 PM.