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 back to Japan with Saint Francis Xavier and two additional Jesuits, as an interpreter, in what is documented as the first Jesuit mission to Japan. The installation also forges false connections between the spread of Christianity to the new world and the export of olive oil. The Container, as the name suggests, is no more than a constructed shipping container (485x180x177cm) in Nakameguro, Tokyo. The exhibition space, the brainchild of Tokyo-based curator Shai Ohayon, invites Japanese and international artists to make site-specific installations four times a year. Each installation remains on view to the public for two-and-a-half months. www.the-container.com

A fully bilingual (Japanese / English) catalogue for an exhibition of Gil Yefman, entitled "H," at The Container in Tokyo (www.the-container.com) The catalogue explores through writings and images the relation between sexuality and WWII and focuses on Block 24, an isolated unit in the concentration camp of Auschwitz that was used as a brothel, forcing female workers into sex-slavery. Gil Yefman is an Israeli artist exploring gender, sexuality, religion and the collective Jewish memory through a wide range of disciplines. His main medium of work is knitting, which he uses to produce complex, colourful, and child-like sculptures. His works are amusing and fun-like, while secreting potent and unforgiving themes. He has exhibited extensively in Israel and abroad. "H" is his debut exhibition in Japan. The Container, as the name suggests, is no more than a constructed shipping container (485x180x177cm), inside Bross hair salon in trendy Nakameguro, Tokyo. The Container, the brainchild of Tokyo-based curator Shai Ohayon, invites Japanese and international artists to make site-specific installations four times a year. Each installation remains on view to the public for two-and-a-half months.