Kyoko Ibe | Fabulation and Remembrance

Tayloe Piggott Gallery is pleased to present Fabulation and Remembrance: The Paper Art of Kyoko Ibe, a solo exhibition of work by Japanese artist Kyoko Ibe, on view December 16th, 2022 through January 29th, 2023. Kyoko Ibe, arguably Japan’s most respected paper artist, has grounded her recent practice in the recycling of antique documents from pre-modern times. She had already garnered international recognition through her work with ganpi, paper made from the inner bark of Diplomorpha sikokiana (an upland shrub), a material she still uses to fashion weightless-looking, large-scale installations or stage sets that often are kept in constant motion by ambient breezes. During the present century, however, she has also been creating pictorial compositions, typically folding screens, from antique washi paper and myriad paper fragments—receipts, contracts, bills, and letters—that were brushed in centuries past.