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SEIZAN Gallery is pleased to present “Fires on Another Shore,” a solo exhibition by Motohide Takami. Takami has exhibited both in Japan and abroad, and his artworks explore the human tendency to consume events that befall others as somehow unreal.

Takami was living in Yamagata prefecture when the Great East Japan Earthquake struck in the region. Although large earthquakes had happened elsewhere before, he felt unease at the way people suddenly began preaching the value of art in extraordinary times, as if they could only do so after going through disaster themselves, and further noticed the …