COMBINE office ／BAMI gallery

The reflection stimulates the senses, opens the eyes, and offers a step towards wisdom and strong new possibilities in our future societies. COMBINE wants people of our time to be exposed to new ideas, and to be excited by new forms of expression - whether these induce feelings pleasant or painful. We want people to be connected to each other through the common pursuit of their various drea

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824 21, Ninintsukasacho, Shimogyo, Kyoto, Japan e-mail [email protected]

【BAMI gallery】

The name 'BAMI' is made up of the Japanese characters 'Ba' = '場' and 'Mi' = '見' that translate as 'site' and 'sight' . When written together the word these characters make suggests ideas of 'viewing space' , 'showing space' or 'discovering space' .'Ba' is a character used in terms that translate as 'place' , 'scene' , 'circumstance' and 'marketplace' . It does not, then, denote merely physical space. It also expresses a sense of temporal and spatial sharing of ideas and experiences in human existence. We think of BAMI Gallery as a place where artists can generate and display their own expressions and where those expressions can be viewed and evaluated by a wide and variegated audience. And we consider it to be a site where research into, and actual experience of the birth of new creative expression, can take place. Society emerges as a result of human life that is sparked by nuclear fission; BAMI Gallery seeks the potential for the birth of new creative expression. And we' d like to give exposure to the new creative forms generated by an environment of mutual learning and healthy competition