Book Launch – Passagens 2017-2024
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24.09.2024
Lucas Odahara in conversation with Liang-Kai Yu
Passagens 2017-2024 is a collection of texts and images that have been central to Lucas Odahara’s practice in the past years. Mostly known for his visual work, text surfaces in Odahara’s practice in the form of public readings while also existing as the backbone of his practice, even when not exposed to the public.
In Passagens 2017-2024, the artist puts together a selection of these texts for the first time. Poetry, short stories, essays and lectures, the collection addresses this material that not only follows his visual work but in fact pushes it forward, supports and questions it.
Accompanying the text, Odahara created a second book, likewise in the form of a leporello and brought together in a box. A screen-printed piece, each unique in composition, containing reference images used in his past works. Images that have been turned into glaze paintings, that stem from research or simply hanged in his studio. Both text and image in Passagens 2017-2024 expose an underlying current in Lucas’ work. Material that is not always visible and yet central to his practice, a practice that in itself is often guided by questions of visibility in relation to race and gender.
For the release, alongside readings of the texts, there will be a conversation between Odahara and Liang-Kai Yu. They first encountered each other’s work in 2017 in Odahara’s first exhibition in Berlin at the Schwulesmuseum. In 2024 they meet again now in Maastricht at Limestone Books, where Odahara is a current resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy and Liang-Kai is part of the founding collective of Limestone.
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Lucas Odahara is an artist based in Berlin, working with a variety of media including ceramic glaze painting, moving image, and writing.
Liang-Kai Yu is a researcher based in the Hague who writes about curatorial histories, critical theories, and queer feminist art practices.