AS THE GROUND HOLDS

VILLEPIN is pleased to present _As the Ground Holds_, a focused exhibition bringing together works by Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Zenzaburō Kojima, Lê Phổ, and Mai Trung Thứ—four artists who made Paris their home at a moment when the city stood at the forefront of modernism. This presentation marks Zenzaburō Kojima’s debut in a Hong Kong gallery, reuniting his work with that of his peers within migrant artist circles in Paris. > _“There is a special poignancy in reuniting Lê Phổ and Mai Trung Thứ, who journeyed from Vietnam to France together in 1937; Kojima and Foujita, Japanese compatriots navigating the École de Paris in the 1920s; and Lê Phổ and Foujita, who exhibited together in the late 1950s. Almost a century later, As the Ground Holds weaves together the unseen networks of migrant artists in Paris, allowing them to speak to a new era. In a time shaped by displacement, these artists show us how to hold onto a world within which we can no longer live, while feeling new ground beneath our feet.”_ > > Rishika Assomull, Senior Director of VILLEPIN [Download Press Release](/s/VILLEPIN_Press-Release_As-the-Ground-Holds-EN.pdf)