This residency would not have been possible without an incredible support of Tsukiyo to Syonen, a small yet enthusiastic art…
Research in Japan, Day 1 (Ashiya City, Hyogo): Why Ashiya?
Day 1, Ashiya (Hyogo Prefecture) A shuttle coach took me from the Kansai Airport (Osaka) to the location of my…
The Alchemy of Matter: ‘Confluence’ by Takesada Matsutani & Aliska Lahusen (Manggha Museum, Kraków)
Eternity will be velocity or pause (Emily Dickinson) …
Toshio Shibata ‘Bridge’ (Daiwa Foundation, London & Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp)
“During the shooting, I often imagine unrelated matters which are the impressions I receive from the subject; going away from…
Takashi Kawashima, Absence and Ambience (Daiwa Foundation, London 4 – 27 October 2017)
“Maybe it is not the destructiveness of the volcano that pleases most, though everyone loves a conflagration, but its defiance…
FEMALE FORCE FROM JAPAN, Ibasho Gallery (1 June — 3 September 2017, Antwerp)
Tucked away on a quiet residential street in the cultural district of Antwerp (Zuid) is Ibasho Gallery, an exhibition space…
The Japanese House: Architecture and Life After 1945 (Barbican, London)
It might come as a surprise but the average life span of a building in Tokyo is thirty years. Decimated…
BOOK, Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts. From Kishida Ryūsei to Miyazaki Hayao (2016) by Michael Lucken
In his book A Japanese Mirror (1984), Ian Buruma, a Dutch historian and author of numerous volumes on Japan describes…
Ito Shun, Cosmic Birds & In a Landscape 2-20 May 2016 (Municipal Bank, Birmingham)
When several years ago two friends, Japanese kinetic sculptor Shun Ito and Birmingham based choreographer Miyata Kei, met in the UK’s second…
Ryoichi Kurokawa, Unfold (FACT, Liverpool 2016)
The power of data with its immense diversity, unconceivable scale and sheer visual potency escapes definition, despite being encoded in…
Between the Images 