English/ Japanese
"Photo book!
Photo-book!
Photobook! "
RESERVATION REQUIRED
FREE
- 2026.4.18
- 10:30–11:30
Hachiku-an (Former Kawasaki Residence)
Installation view (vitrine): Photo book! Photo-book! Photobook! curated by Sean O'Toole, 11 February–21 May 2022. Image © A4 Arts Foundation.
This event brings together the director and editor of the Cape Town–based A4 Arts Foundation alongside the director and chief curator, Josh Ginsburg, the editor, Sara de Beer, and the exhibition’s curator, Sean O’Toole, to present the background and creative process behind the photobook collection featured in “Photo book! Photo-book! Photobook!”.
Spanning works from 1945 to the present, the session explores how South Africa’s history, politics, and culture are interpreted through the artistic practice of bookmaking, while also offering insight into the A4 Arts Foundation’s activities as a “laboratory for the arts.”
A4 emerged out of Cape Town in 2017 as a “laboratory for the arts”. The organisation supports artists and arts workers while offering an open interface for audiences to engage with artistic and curatorial processes as they unfold. Its space in Cape Town brings these elements together:
a public library, adaptable rooms for showing and sharing work, a residency program, a bookshop, and offices for a team dedicated to the daily labour of cultural production. A4 works in the arts because it believes artists and arts workers are uniquely equipped to imagine, experiment, and build new futures that are socially and environmentally just.
Spanning works from 1945 to the present, the session explores how South Africa’s history, politics, and culture are interpreted through the artistic practice of bookmaking, while also offering insight into the A4 Arts Foundation’s activities as a “laboratory for the arts.”
A4 emerged out of Cape Town in 2017 as a “laboratory for the arts”. The organisation supports artists and arts workers while offering an open interface for audiences to engage with artistic and curatorial processes as they unfold. Its space in Cape Town brings these elements together:
a public library, adaptable rooms for showing and sharing work, a residency program, a bookshop, and offices for a team dedicated to the daily labour of cultural production. A4 works in the arts because it believes artists and arts workers are uniquely equipped to imagine, experiment, and build new futures that are socially and environmentally just.
- Important Notice
- *Those who wish to participate in the tour should arrive at the registration desk at the venue 15minutes prior to the start time.
Speakers Speakers
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Sean O'Toole (Writer, editor and curator)
Sean O'Toole by Mia Thom
Sean O’Toole is an award-winning writer, editor and curator based in Cape Town. He has published two books, edited three volumes of essays and written extensively about art, photography and architecture for various print and online media. His most recent books are the biography Irma Stern: African in Europe - European in Africa (2021) and The Journey: New Positions in African Photography (2020), a New York Times notable art book of 2021. His recent curatorial projects include Photo book! Photo-book! Photobook! (2022) at A4 Arts Foundation and The Objects (2023) at Under Projects, both in Cape Town.
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Josh Ginsburg- (Director and Chief Curator of A4 Arts Foundation)
Josh Ginsburg is the director and chief curator of A4 Arts Foundation. A not-for-profit, free-to-access laboratory for the arts, A4’s hub is located in Cape Town, South Africa. His more recent exhibitions include Deep Water (2026), Sightlines (2025) and History on One Leg curated with William Kentridge (2024).
Josh has taught at Michaelis School of Fine Art (University of Cape Town) in Unstable Media; Centre for Curating the Archive (University of Cape ) in Digital Curation and at Stellenbosch University’s Department of Visual Arts in Studio Practice and the Moving Image. Prior to A4, he co-established two collaborative artist studio/project spaces, Research Art, and Atlantic House (still active). He holds a BSc in Electrical-Mechanical engineering and an MPhil in Fine Art (UCT). -
Sara de Beer (Editor of A4 Arts Foundation)
Sara is the editor of A4 Arts Foundation. She coordinates the wayfinding for A4’s exhibitions and leads the foundation’s educational programmes. More recent publications include Deep Water (2026) and Sightlines (2025). Sara is the editor of Photo book! Photo-book! Photobook!, a survey of the South African photobook written by Sean O’Toole and designed by Ben Johnson (2026), and she is currently writing a book about the artist Moshekwa Langa (forthcoming).
Date 日時
2026.4.1810:30–11:30
Venue 会場
Hachiku-an (Former Kawasaki Residence)
- Address
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340 Sanjyo-cho Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto
- Access
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Subway Karasuma or Tozai Lines ""Karasuma Oike"" station, 5 min on foot from Exit 6
Subway Karasuma Line ""Shijo"" station or Hankyu ""Karasuma"" station, 8 min on foot from Exit 22 or 24
Fees 料金
Free Admission
