A Sunset a Day (Keeps the Doctor Away)*
by Emilie Hirayama
- Printed in France
* UNE RÉDUCTION DE 15% s'applique aux communes de moins de 5 000 habitants.Contactez-nous pour bénéficier de cette remise.
* POUR TOUTES LES COMMUNES, une réduction de 10% s'applique automatiquement à partir de 3 expositions commandées.
Exhibition available in 2 formats for outdoor use and 1 format for indoor use.
"I once met someone who always carries a small color chart with her. She flips through it whenever she feels the need to refresh her vision. It doesn't matter what time of day it is. The changing lighting environment leads her to appreciate colors from a new perspective each time she reads it.
This encounter made me think of the sensation I had experienced one evening, looking out of an airplane window: it seemed to me that the frame, cutting out sections of twilight skies, offered me endless new palettes.
I have been cultivating the experience of nuances since I was little through the practice of marbling, a privileged time to let go where the gesture orchestrates chance.
The series "A sunset a day (keeps the doctor away)" combines these three stories: color, window and gesture.
I began these imaginary twilights on a foul-weather day, using a trivial marbling technique using ink and shaving cream. One diffuses into the other, and I coax this unlikely duo to move calmly within a defined framework.
The bad weather has turned into confinement. The restricted movements of this particular period made me want to create new colored windows, new openings on a random and controlled color chart inspired by sunsets."
Emilie Hirayama
*A sunset a day keeps the doctor away.
• Outdoors: choose locations where people take a walk and/or where there is a lot of foot traffic: in the centre of the town, near a school, in a public garden or along a walking trail... And if possible, on flat ground!
• Indoors: reception hall, office, waiting room, dining room, meeting room - choose the best-lit space.
CAUTION: If the space where you are displaying the exhibition is slightly damp, we recommend purchasing eight simple frames of the same size (50 x 70 cm) to protect the prints.
The papers we have chosen for printing our exhibitions meet two essential criteria, among others: beautiful colour rendering and durability.
• Exhibitions intended for outdoor display are printed on high-quality 130gsm blue-backed paper.
• For exhibitions intended for indoor display, we have chosen a 550gsm semi-rigid paper to which we attach a simple hanging system. These panels can therefore be hung on a single nail or framed if they are to be displayed in a slightly damp location.
For outdoor displays, our poster formats have been chosen to best suit “election” billboards:
• Large outdoor format (84 x 119 cm) for maximum impact. With one poster per billboard, you will need eight in total.
• Small outdoor format (63 x 93 cm) so that two posters can be placed on the same billboard... meaning you only need to install four billboards.
• Indoor exhibition (50 x 70 cm): 8 prints to hang on 5 linear metres of free wall space.
Full view of the exhibition
Emilie Hirayama
Émilie Hirayama is interested in popular know-how and the heritage of common objects.
The question of waste particularly interests her. In 2020, she exhibited a monumental textile piece made from scraps from the luxury industry at the Biennale Emergences and initiated collaborations with various stakeholders in industrial territories to recycle the waste resulting from their production.
