#95

 

Mayura Torii
ARTISTE AU TRAVAIL
solo show
29/05 - 18/07/2026
opening Sunday 31/05, 3pm -7pm

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Who hasn’t felt like giving up at some point? Who hasn’t been overcome by the feeling that life is meaningless, that the world is out of whack, and that work is pointless? It was a Sunday evening, surely… or maybe a Monday morning… To all of us, inevitably, a question then arose: what’s the point? To this frantic quest for meaning in a world that no longer offers any, to these questions that embody every contradiction, to this colonization by the void of an art world that, whether reluctantly or wholeheartedly, allows the power of money to take deeper root every day, Mayura Torii responds with a Sisyphean plunge into the absurd and offers a remedy for our anxieties that is as lucid as it is playful.

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Through a journey marked by playfulness, mocking jabs, and pranks, Mayura Torii offers a comforting counterpoint to the prevailing glorification of work as
the ultimate form of self-recognition and self-realization. In her works, art, work, and money are no longer disjointed territories but complicit spheres that intertwine, intersect, and silently influence one another, crossing paths in an uncertain zone—a suspended space where reference points vanish. It is in these interstices that the works take root and that the artist mischievously questions the possibilities of a work. Not outside the world, but within these intervals. Not beyond boundaries, but where value still hesitates to settle. Where the encounter takes place.

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Nadia Drici

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