Alliance Française de Penang

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The official centre for French language and culture
in the Northern Region of Malaysia since 1962

What's On

The Tokyoiter Exhibition

In partnership with the Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur, we are proud to present The Tokyoiter Exhibition in Penang. Co-founded by a French designer, The Tokyoiter is a collection of imaginary magazine cover art which celebrates Tokyo in all its rich cultural diversity, created by illustrators and designers from Japan, France, Malaysia and around the world.

Following the success of the exhibition at temu house in Petaling Jaya earlier this year, this exhibition of 30 diverse and vibrant works now tours to Penang as the very first collaboration between JFKL and AFP.

https://www.jfkl.org.my/events/the-tokyoiter-exhibition/

https://www.thetokyoiter.com/

What It Is Of by Éric Baudelaire

Join us for What It Is Of by Éric Baudelaire at Blank Canvas, Penang's leading contemporary art space. This participatory exhibition explores telekinetic phenomena using a tychoscope, a small robot that draws random patterns.

Éric is a celebrated Franco-American artist and filmmaker based in Paris, recipient of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the Marcel Duchamp prize. The Alliance Française de Penang is proud to support the exhibition alongside the Embassy of France in Malaysia and Cloudjoi.

Exhibition

Tychoscope Sessions

What It Is Of is a participatory work. Visitors are invited to sign up for a free half-hour session to create a tychoscope drawing which will become part of the exhibition and project archive. AFP is running a number of French-language sessions on 1 September, 26 and 27 October.

Register at: https://www.cloudjoi.com/shows/2190-what-it-is-of

During each session, a single participant is invited to sit at the drawing table with the tychoscope placed on a blank sheet of paper. For 25 minutes, they are requested to sit quietly and focus on the tychoscope, trying to bring it towards them purely with the power of their thoughts. The resulting drawing is numbered and displayed alongside a control drawing created without a human participant.