HOMING PIGEON (2016)

Homing Pigeon (Kirjekyyhky)

Forum Quartier, Turku & Naantali Spa Gallery, Naantali
4 June – 31 July 2016

Curators: Kio Griffith (USA/Japan) & Ville Laaksonen
Collaboration: Photography Center Peri (Turku)

Artists:

Hiromichi Akahane, Naoko Akiyama, Shiva Aliabadi, Douglas Alvarez, Ismael de Anda III, Samule André, Michael Arata, Carmen Argote, Yajuro Bando, Terri Berman, Virginia Broersma, Nick Brown, Peter Bugg, Gul Cagin, Ako Castuera, Sean Chao, Sijia Chen, Sally Coates, Emily Counts, Sydney Croskery, Ludmil Dimitrov, Veronica Duarte, Tom Dunn, Mark Dutcher, Shigenori Ebata, Aya Niibo Edamoto, Doug Eisenstark, Gabriel Escalante, Bill Farroux, Roni Feldman, Jon Flack, Shingo Francis, David French, Sarajo Frieden, Tatsuya Fukunaga, Rema Ghuloum, Aaron Giesel, Allen D. Glass II, Mat Gleason, Dean Gojobori, Audra Graziano, Michelle Carla Handel, Doug Harvey, Shisei Hashimura, Jun Hiraoka, Lusine Hovsepian, Bryan Ida, Mari Inukai, Aska Irie, Ichiro Irie, Yoko Irino, Yayoi Itami, Masaaki Iwama, Tomoyuki Iwanami, James Jack, William Kaminski, Kazumi Kashimura, Virginia Katz, Ayumi Kikuchi, Phil Kim, Kohl King, Celia Ko, Juri Koll, Norichika Koyama, Minako Kumagai, Gil Kuno, Masumi Kuramochi, Michelle Lai, Melissa Ann Lambert, Jeremiah La Torre, Aleve Mei Loh, Clarita Lulic, Leora Lutz, Yumiko Matsui, Douglas McNamee, Jon Measures, Adam D. Miller, Hiroko Mitsui, Nobuki Mizumoto, Jun Miyazaki, Sae Moriyama, Shinnosuke Murakami, Masami Murao, Misato Nagare, Toshihiro Nagata, Alan Nakagawa, Eric Nakamura, Clary Newell, Tony Ng, Yumiko Nishizawa, Sayuri Noda, Emily Noguchi, Devon Oder, Kayoko Ohashi, Ruri Oinuma, Yasuko Okuno, Shinichi Ono, Yuji Orsuka, Syuzo Otsuka, Kazuyuki Ozonoe, Sara Pae, Linda Pollack, Kosta Potamianos, Max Presneill, Eron Rauch, Max Razdow, Gay Summer Sadow Rick, Christy Roberts, Karrie Ross, Catherine Ruane, Satoshi Saegusa, Toru Saegusa, Chigusa Saga, Samvel Saghatelian, Natsumi Sakatsuki, Chiaki Saito, Ray Sato, Rob Sato, Tomoaki Sato, Sonja Schenk, Lidia Shaddow, Nicolas Shake, Tomoaki Shibata, Mika Soma, Riccardo Spinotti, Satomi Suzuki, Sachi Takasugi, Kenji Tajiri, Mayumi Tanaka, Kyoco Taniyama, Ken Tatewaki, Ilan Terrell, Makoto Tomioka, Tamako Tomioka, Devon Tsuno, Eriko Uchiyama, Mike Vegas, Fred Verhoeven, Grant Vetter, Tetsuya Wakaume, Tessie Salcido Whitmore, Steven Wolkoff, Minoru Yamaguchi, Shin Yamasaki, Fujio Yamazaki, Mari Yanase, Will T. Yang, Yuji Yamashina, Michiko Yao, Akihiro Yasugi, Kouichiro Yoshio, Xiaowen Zhu, Essi Zimm

Finnish edition: Lotta Djupsund, Juha Allan Ekholm, Piritta Fors, Sade Kahra, Soili Mustapää, Timo Saarelma

Project description:
Homing Pigeon (Kirjekyyhky) was part of Los Angeles–based curator Kio Griffith’s international exhibition series centered on photography and image-based art, touring globally between 2013 and 2018.

The exhibition consisted of approximately 250 unframed A4-sized photographs, each contributing to a growing archive that expands with every new location. At each stop, local artists are invited to join the project, transforming Homing Pigeon into a continuously evolving collective narrative of visual correspondence.

In Finland, the exhibition was realized in collaboration with Valokuvakeskus Peri, with Ville Laaksonen curating a selection of works by Finnish artists to accompany the international collection. Around 300 works were shown across two venues — Forum Kortteli in Turku and Naantali Spa Gallery in Naantali — representing artists from Finland, Japan, and the United States.

Before arriving in Finland, Homing Pigeon had been exhibited in Los Angeles (Balconi, 2013), Tokyo (Gallery Lara / Roppongi 605, 2013), Yokohama (Yokohama Triennial, 2014), and Kyoto (Gallery Antenna, 2015). The Finnish edition continued the project’s curatorial mission of connecting local artistic communities across continents through the simple yet profound gesture of shared photographic communication — much like messages carried by homing pigeons across distance and time.

More information: Homing Pigeon Project