A fully bilingual catalogue (English/Japanese) for an exhibition of the Japanese video/film artist Yu Araki, at The Container, Tokyo. The catalogue explores in writings and images Araki's practice and the exhibition "Wrong Translation," featuring a video installation inspired by Araki's recent residency in Santander, Spain, summer 2013. The video installation, entitled "ANGELO LIVES," makes references to Shusaku Endo's novel "Silence" (1966), and fictitiously narrated by Anjiro, a Japanese convicted murderer who fled Japan to the Malaysian state Malacca in the 16th century, returning later...

"Love Me, Bomb Me" is a fully bilingual (Eng/Jap) exhibition catalogue for a site-specific installation by the Brazilian artist Pedro Inoue at The Container, Tokyo (www.the-container.com). Inoue has shown his works in Korea, Japan, France and the UK, and collaborated with clients such David Bowie, Damien Hirst, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. For the last few years, he has been working also as the creative director of the socio-political magazine AdBusters. In all of his work, though, whether commercial or artistic, one can still find his unrelenting criticism of the world we have created. For The...

"Change Room" is an exhibition catalogue for Canadian artist Robert Waters' show at The Container, Tokyo. A fully bilingual publication (Eng / Jap), the catalogue explores in essays and illustrations the current works of Waters and his fascination with the human body and its evolution: "Transformation and evolution are repeated conceptual notions in the works of Canadian artist Robert Waters, who currently lives in Spain. From his early collages and sculptural constructions of mid 90s, influenced by American Modernism, to religion inspired pieces from his Mexico City residence years, and to...

A bilingual, Japanese/English, exhibition catalogue (full color, 134 pages) for Scottish Tokyo-based artist Jack McLean. The publication features essays by the renown art critics / writers: Eleanor Heartney and Edward Madrid Gomez, as well as a commissioned piece of fiction, a short story, "The Unhappy Guest," authored by Charles Knudsen. The author drew inspiration from McLean's drawings and his persona character The Sad Clown. The story is printed only in English. The main focus of the exhibition is three conjoined drawings, a triptych of sort, that take the viewer on an actual journey,...

A bilingual (English/Japanese) exhibition catalogue published by The Container, a contemporary art gallery in Tokyo. This publication investigates the works of the Irish artist Suzanne Mooney (resides in Tokyo) with writings about her practice and samples of her photography. The catalogue explores her site-specific installation at The Container, "A few taps upon the pane, no one turns, no reply" (27 July - 11 October 2015). The installation, a conversion of the space into a life-size light box, using direct printing on an acrylic panel, presents an image of a building in Dublin, Ireland,...

Game Boy Tetris is a bilingual (Eng/Jap) catalogue for an exhibition by the New York artist, Rutherford Chang, at The Container in Tokyo. His installation presents the artist's obsessive tendencies and preoccupation with repetitive activities, showcasing 1,764 videos of documentation of Chang's efforts to rise to Tetris world domination. Currently ranked #2 worldwide by Twin Galaxies, the official record-keeper. It's safe to say that Chang's sights are still on the top position and that he's not giving up anytime soon. The Container is a contemporary art gallery in Nakameguro, Tokyo. The...

"nibble, nibble, gnaw" is a bilingual (Japanese/English) artist book / catalogue for an exhibition of the Swiss artist Nadja Solari at The Container gallery in Tokyo. The exhibition, to celebrate the centenary of the Dada movement, in partnership with the Switzerland embassy in Japan, is a spatial mixed-media installation, constructing a connection between the contemporary digital-age bot-generated spam emails and Sound Poetry. Inspired by the subject lines of such emails, which are often a comical neologism that tries to outsmart the spam filtering programmes to avoid interception, is akin...