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Art Group ‘Genjitsu’
Following the JR train line that follows overhead, Beppu Station Market is a collection of shops selling fish, meat, and vegetables for almost 50 years. In three disused shops, Naoyuki Hata, Takanori Suzuki, and Hiroaki Higashi have staged a group exhibition of individual work that brings together photography, film, sculpture,…
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Hikaru Suzuki
Hikaru SuzukiOctober 2018, video, 30:25 min Fade across, subway, elevator, flying kites, docks, shipping containers, industrial site, town. What sits at the heart of the montage and does this serve a wider purpose? Standing on some corner of an industrial estate or on the edge of the shipyard. Not ‘looking…
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4649
Artist run space 4649 (pronounced Yo-Ro-Shi-Ku) has its roots in the now-defunct Workstation gallery. Yasuaki Hamada, Kazuki Matsushita, Tsutomu Shimomura, Yuu TakamizawaApril 29 – May 27, 2018 http://4-6-4-9.jp/group-show.html
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Aquarium of the Eye
On December 20th, I took part in a conversation with photographer Osamu Kanemura at Ebisu’s POST bookshop to celebrate his new photo book Concrete Octopus. Co-edited by Osiris in Tokyo and Lisbon’s Pierre von Kleist, the book of 40 plates has no real beginning, middle or end. In essence, Concrete Octopus is less of…