ANASTASIA SIMONIN & KAZUO YAGI MARSDEN: STICK STUCK STUCK

Prima is pleased to present Stick Stuck Stuck, the first solo exhibition in Paris by Anastasia Simonin and Kazuo Yagi Marsden. Based in Marseille, the duo have been working collaboratively since 2021 and gained recognition in 2025 at the 68th Salon de Montrouge. In 2026, they present a solo exhibition at KOMMET art centre in Lyon, enter the collection of the FRAC Franche-Comté, and take over Le 33 in Marseille.

Anastasia Simonin and Kazuo Yagi Marsden work primarily with wood, combining it with tin, alabaster, stone and textiles. Their sculptures emerge from an ongoing dialogue between intention and material, in which references to the life sciences, anatomy and domestic objects circulate freely from one work to another, blurring the boundaries between body, object and exhibition space.

Stick Stuck Stuck takes a specific object as its starting point: the sink strainer. Placed at the bottom of a sink, it collects food scraps and bodily residue before they disappear down the drain. These remnants form compositions that are renewed with each daily cycle of washing dishes and washing ourselves. The patterns caught by the strainer are treated not as waste destined to be forgotten, but as a vocabulary that travels from one sculpture to another, shifting in scale and material: a grain of rice is carved in alabaster, a strand of hair extends into a line of wood, and in doing so acquires a form of permanence.

These residual compositions reappear in small scenes scattered throughout the exhibition. Floorboards are inlaid with 5, 2 and 1 cent coins, the loose change that lingers around the house, embedded in the wood like fragments caught in the skin of the floor. A noren curtain, made from a patchwork of antique fabric handkerchiefs, divides the space in two, creating a more intimate area. During the Edo period, restaurant customers would wipe their hands on this type of curtain as they left, and the more stained it became, the better the restaurant was reputed to be. From one nose falls a drop of tin; from another hangs a magnetised spoon, suspended somewhere between the domestic realm of the kitchen and the more organic fluids associated with the handkerchief.

These works all occupy the same in-between state: the aftermath, when things are no longer quite in their place but have not yet disappeared. Anastasia Simonin and Kazuo Yagi Marsden freeze a domestic cycle, a daily routine, through fragments of memory and scenes unfolding at different scales. Together, the works create a quiet, gentle atmosphere, tinged with a touch of drama and humour: a suspended, almost nostalgic moment, the time that follows the gestures of everyday life.