Obol: Andrius Arutiunian's visionary descent into the underworld opens at Le Forum

The Foudation d'entreprise Hermes is presenting Obol, a solo exhibition by Armenian Lithuanian artinst and composer Andrius Arutiunian (b.1991). Curated by Tomoya Iwata, director of the curatorial space The 5th Floor, Obol is Arutiunian's first solo exhibition in Japan. The artist reprensented Armenia at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, and has since shown at the Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, and the Gwangju Biennale. Obol unfolds as an investigation of the underworld's future. Constructed as a descent into the realm of the dead, the show probes rituals that mark the transition into another world. Arutiunian often deals with time as a viscous and hypnotic force. Treating music as a strange architecture of time, the artist works with vernacular practices, speculative rituals, and the paralleles of political and sonic attunement. At Le Forum, Arutiunian creates a futuristic vision of the afterlife. Each civilization produces ways to govern both present and oth