ジェス　カレド جيس خالد

Jes Kalled is a multidisciplinary artist. Her work moves across the mediums of writing, photography, painting, dance, and film to engage in questions of body, personhood, language, and place.

In June 2023, her solo exhibition titled, A year of forgetting the pines 松を忘れた一年, was held at Gallery Paradiso in Yoyogi Uehara, Tokyo. Through oil paintings, photography, video, and audio cassette tape, A year of forgetting explored the artist’s Lebanese roots, the loss of Arabic language in her family, and the fragments of self found in our relationships with people and place.

Kalled has been published in Metropolis Magazine, Tokyo Weekender, Savvy Tokyo, Japan Objects, and Tokyo Poetry Journal among others.

After a decade of living in Japan, Kalled is presently based in New Hampshire on Abenaki land. The artist studied Film in Prague, Czech Republic at FAMU, and relocated to Japan to pursue art and language after graduating from Smith College with a BA in Film Studies and Dance.

Swallow

Swallow is an ongoing documentation project born in March 2022.

Many entries are curious about memory, perception, and the relationship we have to our environments and to ourselves. Swallow, though always evolving, is a project that seeks to document our connections, vulnerabilities, and gaps.

Press

Tokyo Poetry Journal, Volume 14: Eros, Live Painting & Poetry reading — Tokyo Weekender

8am Coffee With Jes Kalled — Tokyo Weekender

A year of forgetting the pines — Tokyo Weekender