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 … More

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 … More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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