Interview: Adou & "To Nietzsche"

Interview

Five short questions for Chinese artist Adou about his book "To Nietzsche" (with Liu Ke and Huang Huang) and its connections to the German philosopher.

Showa Trilogy|Kazuyoshi Usui

Interview

Japanese photographer Kazuyoshi Usui began his Showa project series in the early 2000s, in the midst of Japan’s Heisei era. Following the photobooks “Showa 88” and “Showa 92”, Usui recently released “Showa 96,” the final entry in the trilogy.
Usui’s series imagines a world in which Japan’s Showa era did not end in 1989 but continued on and on, until the present day…
For shashasha, Usui wrote the following text outlining his fascination with the Showa era and his view of its “strength of survival.”