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Naked Photography II: Takuma Nakahira’s ‘Kirikae’ In my previous column, based on the fact that in his recent solo exhibitions at BLD Gallery and ShugoArts Takuma Nakahira had abandoned the presentation method of showing photographs in pairs, I wrote theView More >

In a continuation of the column 2010 Cinema, this is the first in a series of fictional portraits by Hu Fang, each taking the form of loose screen plays. 1.1 (a) He tries to depict his own image, with theView More >

A deep, black hole inside of ‘me’ (Part II) In his previous column, Noi Sawaragi introduced concerns about the differences between art and theatre, presence and absence in relation to Norimizu Ameya’s The shape of me, simultaneously presented at multipleView More >

Naked Photography: Takuma Nakahira’s ‘Documentary’ Left to right: Images of “tactile surface layers” (2007), (2009), (2007). In photography, every common noun becomes a proper noun, every being becomes “this,” and in this thisness, or haecceity, everything becomes equivalent. If “thisView More >

Allow me first to offer my heartfelt condolences to all those suffering as a result of the recent massive earthquake and tsunami. I hope life can return to some kind of normality in a safe environment as soon as possible.View More >

A deep, black hole inside of ‘me’ (Part I) All images: Installation views of Norimizu Ameya’s The shape of me (2010) at Festival/Tokyo 10. All images courtesy Festival/Tokyo 10. © Yohta Kataoka. Norimizu Ameya’s The shape of me was anView More >

Yuichi Saito – Detective Konan (c 2005) pen on paper, 39.8 x 54.8 cm, private collection. Held at the National Art Center, Tokyo, the 42nd Japan Fine Arts Exhibition (Nitten) ran from late October to the beginning of December 2010,View More >

Moving Photographs: Taiji Matsue’s ‘survey of time’ (Part II) ANF 100465 (2010), Single channel HD digital video, 28 min 50 sec. All images: © Taiji Matsue, courtesy Taro Nasu. At a time when, due to the virtual integration of digitalView More >