During the kogei exhibition, a group of artists installed the five elements tea room at the 21st century museum of contemporary art in kanazawa using concentric layers of shoji screens. The team, consisting of artist ohi chozaemon, ceramic artist and architect yuki nara, and architecture firm iemoto.inc, drew from chinese philosophy to combine elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water, in a piece made of lattice wood and washi paper partitions…
