The grace lays in falling: ‘Cosmogenesis’ by Hiroe Saeki (Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London)

‘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 (website soon to be launched) is heading towards its phase two, digging deeper and bolder into Tokyo’s…

Photographs do not always disclose clues, nor lead us to the sites we imagine, nor release us from what lies…

‘We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms: it ‘excludes’, it ‘represses’,…

Tokyo is a difficult city to get to know. Paul Waley, Tokyo: City of Stories (1991) Regardless of what…

‘Certainly, for artists of all stripes, the unknown, the idea or the form or the tale that has not yet…

Japan is changing. Inevitably. The country we know from old postcards and associate with ancient stories and…

I am visiting Kyoto and Japan for the first time ever. I was never going to be objective about…

One thing is noticeable in Osaka’s art scene: a general lack of gallery space and an attempt to create something…