Bijoy Jain / Studio Mumbai: Breath of an Architect

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The reference book on the philosophy and aesthetics of Bijoy Jain. From December 2023 to April 2024, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain is inviting Indian architect Bijoy Jain, founder of Studio Mumbai, to create a significant exhibition offering a space of quiet contemplation and reverie. Exploring the boundaries between art, architecture, and matter, Bijoy Jain's creative response to the building and the Fondation Cartier will reflect a way of thinking that considers time and movement as an essential construct in the making of space. Jain is committed to the creation of an architecture, embodied in water, air, and light, synthesised to the rhythm of human breath. Humankind in Nature - Nature in Humankind. The works reflect an intuitive haptic exchange that connects people. For this exhibition, the architect is inviting Chinese artist Hu Liu and Turkish ceramic artist Alev Ebzziya Siesbye. In the process of creating their work, all the three practices are embedded in gesture, materiality, time, movement and space and thereby share the same sensibility and ethos. On this occasion, the Fondation Cartier is publishing a visual catalogue, under the artistic direction of Japanese designer Taku Satoh, offering readers a discovery of Bijoy Jain's unique practice and philosophy. Photos of Studio Mumbai taken by the famous photographer Iwan Baan, as well as Neville Sukhia, will offer a glimpse into the artist's universe.

Author Bio

Born in 1965 in Mumbai, Bijoy Jain is director and head architect of Studio Mumbai. In 2005, he founded Studio Mumbai, a humancentered infrastructure where architects and artisans work between tradition and modernity using local resources. He has taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, at the Yale School of Architecture, and at the Academy of Architecture of the Universit della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio, Switzerland. His work has also been shown all over the world, mainly in the architecture biennales of Venice (2010 and 2016) and Chicago (2017).