Tokyo
Tomoko Yoneda: Rivers Become Oceans
ShugoArts
By Darryl Wee

First exhibited at the Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh in 2008, 44-year-old London-based Japanese photographer Tomoko Yoneda’s exhibition, “Rivers Become Oceans,” consisted of works that explore historical resonances concealed in innocuous-looking landscapes. Yoneda’s last solo show, “An End is a Beginning” (2008) at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, revisited politically charged sites of national history many years after the occurrence of traumatic events, such as the 1972 Bloody Sunday incident in Northern Ireland. [more]

Bangkok
Wit Pimkanchanapong: Not Quite a Total Eclipse
100 Tonson Gallery
By Brian Mertens

Each new work by Wit Pimkanchanapong tends to be noteworthy, novel and full of play, partly because he ventures into new formats so often—video, animation, graphics, audience-participation experiments, collaborative installations, stage production for rock musicians, you name it. Now nearing midcareer status at the age of 33, Wit delved into kinetic sculpture with his latest solo installation, Not Quite a Total Eclipse, which consisted of an illuminated tower built in the center of the darkened main space of 100 Tonson Gallery. [more]

Jerusalem
The Jerusalem Show: The Jerusalem Syndrome
Various Locations
By Joshua Simon

Jerusalem has been a place of pilgrimage for thousands of years. “The Jerusalem Show,” however, did not try to turn the holy city into a modern day art mecca, but sought to enact a direct encounter with the city’s residents.
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London
ethKnowcentrix: Museums Inside the Artist
October Gallery
By John Jervis

Of the four artists in “ethKnowcentrix,” a group show of contemporary Pacific art, it is co-curator Rosanna Raymond, born in New Zealand of Samoan descent, whose engaging works dominated the exhibition space through quantity, diversity and force of personality. [more]