
Photo by Lucy Birmingham
Nakaya Fujiko, "Fogfalls #47670 'Tales of Ugetsu'" (2008)

Courtesy the Artist and Vitamin Creative Space
Cao Fei, "Play with Your Triennale - RMB City Project" (2008)
At the idyllic Sankeien, a traditional Japanese garden and the Triennale’s fourth main venue, a fascinating, eerie pallor suffuses the art on view. Misty waves of man-made fog from
Nakaya Fujiko’s
Fogfalls #47670 ‘Tales of Ugetsu’ seep through the trees, setting a tone borne out in
Jorge Macchi and
Edgardo Rudnitzky’s minimalist installation
Twilight. Set in an old dark temple, this latter work features a single fading light bulb attached to a wire moving ever so slowly across the room. One Tokyo gallerist lamented, “It looks stolen from a Hijikata performance I saw in the ’70s.”