Tezukayama Gallery is excited to announce a solo exhibition of new work from international artists Lucie & Simon, from 10th July (Thur) - 2nd August (Sat) 2014 at Tezukayama Gallery, with the reception party on 15th July (Tue) from 18:00. Our Tezukayama exhibition will be in conjunction with their exhibition at Art Osaka 2014 from 11th July (Fri) - 13th July (Sun) at Hotel Granvia Osaka.
Lucie & Simon are a French and Franco-German contemporary art duo who have been living and working together in Paris since 2005. They create dream-like photography and video work that questions our view of reality. Their concept is based on the narrow gap between existence and dreams. Most often this is reflected through the theme of solitude, where characters are left only with their thoughts in deserted, dream-like spaces or locations. Through careful use of imagination, composition, light and birds-eye perspective, they create atmospheres that are both arresting in beauty and disturbingly ghostly.
Lucie & Simon were last year selected from about 60 artists at the Jeune Création exhibition in Paris to exhibit their work here in Osaka this year.
Their previous ‘Silent World’ series of photographs and video work, shot in four different countries, over a 5 year period (2009-2012), focus on the solitude of our subconscious. Many are shot in well-known locations such as Madison Square Garden, New York, and Place de l’Opera, Paris, usually bustling with people, now desolate, mysterious, eerie settings in which solitary characters are alone with thought and reflection.
We will exhibit a large-scale projection of their new video work ‘Lucie & Simon: in search of Eternity’, along with several photographic prints from their previous series. We are looking forward to welcoming you to this exciting exhibition from Lucie & Simon this July at Tezukayama Gallery.
With this brand-new work ‘In search of Eternity’, they explore the terms “eternity/ infinity”, referring to that which has no limit in time and space.

“Through the exploration of time and space in video and photography, we try to explore the nature of being and the world that encompasses it. The video takes the shape of a poetic journey into human life and activity, travelling slowly through people and the city that appear solidified, like frozen in time. It is this idea of an infinite world captured by the camera that interests us here. A universe where the representation of human life and the way we perceive reality are put into question.
Can time and space exist independently of the mind?
In this first chapter of the project shot during the period 2012-2013 in Paris, we concentrated ourselves on the last popular parts of the city, which are rapidly disappearing. The camera acts like a recorder of time here, capturing for the ages a living image of a city that will soon have vanished, metamorphosed.”
- Lucie & Simon (artist’s statement)