032 TOKYO digression, an exhibition
from Journeys and from Home
In May last year I had a great pleasure to introduce orihon, an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Davisi Boontharm at the House of Architecture in Zagreb, Croatia. The exhibition was a great success. Davisi, an artist, architect, urbanist, environmentalist, accomplished academic and founding partner in co+re.partnership, now brings her orihon to Japan, to culture of its origin and to another house of architecture - a small, fine shinkenchiku-sha Aoyama House in Tokyo.
Davisi explores the beauty of everyday life. In orihon – long, folded sheets of paper with text, drawings, or both – her search has found an ideal medium. In formal sense between the scroll and codex, orihon overcome the clumsiness and risks of rolling and unrolling of scrolls, and they do away with linear progression dictated by bookbinding. Orihon seek touch, they want to be private and exclusive; exhibiting them is a creative enterprise on its own.
