At Palais de Tokyo, artist George Henry Longly has created an original installation, “The Tissue Equivalent”, based on these rarely exhibited masterpieces. 

George Henry Longly presents an unsettling sensory experience in a vast arena that plays host to eight suits of daimyo armour, bearskin spear sheaths, and banners. In this installation, the artist brings together popular culture and the collective unconscious whilst drawing inspiration from a synthetic material that imitates the cellular tissue of the human body.

Palais de Tokyo, in partnership for the first time with the Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet, presents an exceptional collection of artefacts that belonged to a powerful caste of governors who reigned in Japan between the 12th and 19th centuries: the daimyo.