‘But I am talking about the time when there wasn’t any Earth underneath or anything else solid, not even a…
Where I am when I am not here: Ayaka Nishi, Carsten Rabe and Jessica Leinen (Galerie Speckstraße, Hamburg)
Objects and words also have hollow places in which a past sleeps, as in everyday acts of walking, eating, going to…
Tokyo Photographic Research at CO-OP/ Unseen Photo Fair (Amsterdam)
Tokyo Photographic Research (website soon to be launched) is heading towards its phase two, digging deeper and bolder into Tokyo’s…
Remains of the Day: ‘So it Goes’ by Miho Kajioka (Caroline O’Breen Gallery, Amsterdam & Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp)
Photographs do not always disclose clues, nor lead us to the sites we imagine, nor release us from what lies…
Regarding* the Gaze: Tokyo Rumando & Hideka Tonomura in ‘Double Method’ (Daiwa Foundation, London)
‘We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms: it ‘excludes’, it ‘represses’,…
Taisuke Koyama ‘Tokyo Photographic Research # 1: Phase Trans’ (G/P Gallery, Tokyo)
Tokyo is a difficult city to get to know. Paul Waley, Tokyo: City of Stories (1991) Regardless of what…
Art in Making: AIR Onomichi (Komyouji Kaikan) & Abandoned House Reclamation Project
‘Certainly, for artists of all stripes, the unknown, the idea or the form or the tale that has not yet…
On Resistance: Tomomi Morita & Tadashi Ono / Kyotographie 2018 (Horikawa Oike Gallery, Kyoto)
Japan is changing. Inevitably. The country we know from old postcards and associate with ancient stories and…
Kyoto is Life: International Photo Festival Kyotographie 2018 (Kyoto)
I am visiting Kyoto and Japan for the first time ever. I was never going to be objective about…
Day 3: Osaka’s nomadic art scene
One thing is noticeable in Osaka’s art scene: a general lack of gallery space and an attempt to create something…
