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Three weeks into Satomi Shirai’s first solo exhibition in Europe “Home from Home”, it seems visitors don’t always agree with Shirai’s artist statement.

Satomi Shirai views her work as an attempt to create photographic images that translate the assimilation processes of outsiders in a new environment, and the physical and psychological changes they experience. Originally the artist intended to document her own life as a Japanese person living in New York, but soon achieved the transformation of her […]

Fukui’s art in Japanese is called „kiri e“, paper cut-out silhouettes, but what Fukui really creates are „kiri ga“, paper cut-out paintings. [...]

Arts and crafts go together in Japan. There is not one without the other. Applied arts from Japan are a delight for the senses. [...]