Bijoy Jain

Limited Edition

Art Room

To celebrate the launch of the new winter issue of See All This, we’re opening a special Art Room with the limited edition Recollections by artist and architect Bijoy Jain – the guest curator of the winter issue, and one of today’s most visionary voices in contemporary art and architecture.

Recollections was created in collaboration with Gallery Magazine. In this Art Room, we are offering this special edition exclusively in the Netherlands for readers of See All This. Read more below.

With thanks to Bijoy Jain, Studio Mumbai, and Jonathan Robert Maj and Johannes Ströhmengher Berry (Gallery Magazine), photography: Maxime Delvaux

Bijoy Jain

‘It is about the consideration one gives to the making of things, about being immersive and attentive to the environment, the materials, and its inhabitants, in the possibility for space and architecture to be inclusive.’

Fig 2. Bijoy Jain, director of Studio Mumbai, in front of his studio, 2016

ABOUT THE ARTIST AND ARCHITECT

Bijoy Jain, born in 1965 in Mumbai, studied at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He worked in Los Angeles and London before returning to India in 1995 and founding Studio Mumbai. The studio operates as an interdisciplinary group of architects, engineers, master builders, artisans, technicians and artists across continents. As a collective, they are involved in the research and development of projects, using water, air and light as the basis of all materiality in the synthesis of the work: ‘Humankind in nature – nature in Humankind.’

Bijoy Jain teaches at the Accademia di Architettura, Università della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio, Switzerland. He also taught as a visiting professor at Yale University in the United States and at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. In 2015, he received an honorary doctorate from Hasselt University, Belgium, for his contribution to the architectural profession. In 2017, he received the RIBA International Fellowship in London.

This year, See All This collaborated with Bijoy Jain on the winter issue with the theme ‘Make yourself a home’. This winter, there will be a major exhibition of his new work at the Fondation Cartier in Paris. You can read more about it in this Art Room.

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Bijoy Jain

‘The abundance of sensory phenomena, dreams, memory, imagination, emotions and intuition stem from a pool of experiences, embedded in the corners of our eyes, in the soles of our feet, in the lobes of our ears, in the timbre of our voices, in the whisper of our breath and in the palm of our hands.’

Fig 11. Studio of Bijoy Jain in Mumbai, uit: Recollections

Fig 12. Studio of Bijoy Jain in Mumbai, uit: Recollections

‘It is a place where order and chaos coexist and where a charismatic master exercises an all-seeing eye for form and matter. It is the place where Jain lives with a pack of seven spirited dogs, whose leashes swing from the branches of the tree in the courtyard. Meanwhile, people work noiselessly on miniature models for chairs, stairs and houses, which are then kept in the metres-long library cabinets lining the walls of the floor above. And then there is this household that flows like an underground stream, run by men who bring coconut water and coffee, tea, and gin and tonics, curries, dahls and chocolates, and who, at dusk, raise a mist of incense smoke into the highest corners of the space to ward off nocturnal insects.’

— from Nicole Ex’s interview with BijoyJain in See All This #32

No. 32 – Winter 2023/2024

Recollections van Bijoy Jain (Gallery Magazine, Maxime Delvaux)

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