Tomoko Sawada - Recruit Michael Buxton Collection The Sun Shone Glaringly evokes

The Sun Shone Glaringly evokes all the tropes of the LA myth to address an essential question: how do popular representations of Los Angeles affect our everyday experience of the city

novelist Will Wiles scrutinises Tony Blair’s so-called ‘sofa politics’

geometric collages and reference the artist’s painting and sculptural work

Published by Ivory Press (Madrid)

Tomoko Sawada - Recruit Michael Buxton Collection The Sun Shone Glaringly evokesIn 'Recruit', Tomoko Sawada continues her work on the autoportrait at the heart of contemporary Japanese society. This time, she explores the identity photos, which Japanese students take at the end of their studies when they start looking for work. She retains the well established formal conventions dress, posture, neutral facial expression but adds a subtle variation. Starting with a fixed photographic method, which imitates the photobooth with its