My study grant here in Hiroshima involves an exhibition. Half the time through it's a good point to sit down, let the last year past and think about which direction the final work will lead. I read a great book by Roland Barthes who is commenting on the "Empire of signs". As a semiologist he was very much interested in signs, symbols and meaning. In the case of Japan he really went nuts in a good sense. In essence he claims that there is no point in rationalising anything from the western point of view. It's more about experiencing, not laying our concepts on something that is not to be understood. It is just different.

That went well with the way I tried to explore Japan so far. Travelling, letting myself drift, forget about the preconceived pictures in my mind and meet people as they are, not as THE Japanese.

So the exhibition will show an excerpt of that in three different parts. The content is the same, but I played around with the mode of presentation. There are large format prints, mounted in a traditional way. There is a folder with polaroid images, I took all along the way. And there will be 3D Prints which I created with a 3D Printer and a lithogram application. It is creating a three dimensional model based on the dark and light values of the photograph. Pretty fun to play around with dimensional spaces.

So here is your invitation. If you happen to be around in Hiroshima. I'd love to meet you at the former bank of Japan, a building which survived the Atomic Blast and now a cultural space for exhibitions.

The opening is on the 26th Jan 2014 at 11am with some wicked live music!