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Patel Brown is proud to present side by each, a solo exhibition by Alexa Hatanaka. The exhibition, consisting of relief-prints and kamiko garments constructed with washi paper, weaves the long and delicate threads of paper to manifest ancestral connections and intersecting crises. Hatanaka engages with historical Japanese processes of natural dye techniques as well as paper- and print-making, culminating in works that explore the hybridity of craft methods and how it can be applied to the needs of our current world. This hybridity also mirrors Hatanaka’s Japanese-Canadian heritage. By …