Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2011

Look closer at Chinese artist Tsang Kin-Wah’s wallpaper-y room installations and you’ll see that his projections are not just pretty patterns, but provocative English and Chinese writings. For the fifth installment of his ongoing The Seven Seals series, Tsang has taken over a room at the Mori Art Museum, enveloping it in a storm of words taken from anything from the Bible to Buddhism, which move around and propagate like living things. Born in Guangdong Province in 1976, Tsang moved to Hong Kong in 1982 and was featured last year at the Sydney Biennale.

Mori Art Museum, until Jan 15 (listing).