Japanese Tea and Ritual Room at Fou Gallery

New York—Fou Gallery cordially invites you to a special closing event, the Japanese Tea and Ritual Room, on August 3rd. This unique experience, designed and guided by artist Maho Ogawa, promises a participatory performance installation unlike any other.

Maho Ogawa @Judson. Dec 11, 2023. Photo by Rachel Keane.

The Japanese Tea and Ritual Room offers participants a personalized journey of contemplation and serenity. Each guest will select an envelope containing messages that guide them through a customized ritual set within our tranquil space. Under Maho's guidance, attendees will engage in activities that explore the therapeutic potential of daily activities, transforming them from routines into personal rituals.

Following this introspective journey, guests will gather over Japanese Tea, immersing themselves in the peaceful ambiance and the beauty of our surroundings—the intimate exhibition space, the gentle breeze, and the comforting warmth of the Tea.

Join us for a moment dedicated to discovering the essence of ritual in a serene and welcoming environment.

Maho Ogawa at The Jack, April 20, 2024. Photo by Rachel Keane.

Maho Ogawa at The Jack, April 20, 2024. Photo by Rachel Keane.

Maho Ogawa:

Maho Ogawa is a Japanese-born multidisciplinary movement artist working in NYC. Her work has delved into building a choreographic language based on nuances and isolated body movements, and she has built a database, "Minimum Movement Catalog" (https://minimum-movement-demo.web.app/movements). Maho Ogawa uses body, video, text, computer programming, and audience-participatory methods to discover how relationships and the environment affect individual bodies consciously and subconsciously.

Her recent works partly decontextualize and research the minimum movement in Japanese tea culture and cinema. She's working on public events inspired by Japanese tea rituals to build new thinking methods about "silence," providing a quiet but active mindset to heal and unite the community. The aim is to empower the erased cultures by dismantling oppressed body gestures and their context as an archive and audience-participating event, fighting for cultural equality in nonviolent ways.

Maho's works have been shown in Asia (Seoul, Tokyo, Kyoto, Yamaguchi) and in the U.S., including Princeton University, Invisible Dog Art Center, JACK, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and Emily Harvey Foundation, to name a few. Ogawa received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant and creation support at LMCC, Culture Push, Emily Harvey Foundation, LEIMAY, and New Dance Alliance. She is a 2023 Associated Artist at the Culture Push.

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FOU GALLERY is an apartment gallery and creative lab based in New York. Fou is dedicated to promoting creative talents and projects of our time. As suggested by its name, Fou is both a denial of the mainstream commercial gallery model and an active contributor to a new, organic art community. With the belief that the enjoyment of art is an essential part of everyday life, Fou offers a vibrant, inspirational selection of original works in art and design, and hosts various events to create a diverse and accessible art space.

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Maho Ogawa at The Jack, April 20, 2024. Photo by Rachel Keane.

纽约——否画廊诚邀您参加将于2024年8月3日举行的特别闭幕活动《日本茶与仪式室》。这一独特体验将由艺术家Maho Ogawa设计和指导，诣在带来一场与众不同的参与式表演装置艺术。

《日本茶与仪式室》为参与者提供了一次个性化的沉思之旅。每位客人将选择一个信封，其中包含指引他们在否画廊空间中进行定制仪式的信息。在Maho的引导下，观众将模拟这些日常生活行为，探索习以为常的事物是否具有个体疗愈意义，从而重新思考“仪式感”的定义。在这段内省之旅后，参与者将共同品味日本茶，沉浸于画廊展览空间之间、感受夏日的微风以及日本茶的质朴温暖。

Maho Ogawa：

Maho Ogawa是一位出生于日本、现居纽约的跨领域艺术家。她的作品探索基于微妙和孤立身体动作的编舞语言，并创建了《微小动作目录》数据库（https://minimum-movement-demo.web.app/movements）。Maho运用身体、视频、文本、计算机编程以及观众参与方法，探索个体在意识和潜意识中如何与关系和环境互动。

最近，她的作品部分解构和研究了日本茶道和电影中的最小动作。她目前正在开发受日本茶道启发的公共活动，旨在建立关于“沉默”的新思维方法，促进一种安静而积极的心态，用以治愈和团结社区。通过拆解被压制的身体姿势及其语境，她将其视为档案和观众参与活动，以非暴力方式争取文化平等，赋予被抹去的文化以力量。

Maho的作品曾在亚洲（首尔、东京、京都、山口）和美国多个地方展出，包括普林斯顿大学、隐犬艺术中心、JACK剧院、Judson Church的Movement Research以及Emily Harvey基金会等。她曾获得基金会艺术现代紧急资助，并得到LMCC、Culture Push、Emily Harvey基金会、LEIMAY和New Dance Alliance的创作支持。她还是2023年Culture Push的艺术家之一。

否画廊是一个位于纽约的新型有机艺术社区，坐落在一栋始建于1905年的褐石建筑复式公寓中。否画廊相信艺术是一种整体生活方式，并致力于推广和展示反映时代精神的艺术家和创意项目。我们认为当代艺术界应该推荐综合的、可持续、具有精神性的实践项目，并探讨当今社会面临的关键问题。否画廊是对现有商业画廊单一运营模式的抵抗，是探寻自我与自然和谐相处的精神栖息地。

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