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

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

Eternity will be velocity or pause (Emily Dickinson) … More

“Maybe it is not the destructiveness of the volcano that pleases most, though everyone loves a conflagration, but its defiance … More

In his book A Japanese Mirror (1984), Ian Buruma, a Dutch historian and author of numerous volumes on Japan describes … More

The power of data with its immense diversity, unconceivable scale and sheer visual potency escapes definition, despite being encoded in … More