Alchemy, turning lead into gold, is where the future lives. Like the cost of domestic oil and gas, the price of Philippine Bananas has also gone up. And as unsuspecting Japanese holiday makers return home to find their gates missing and sold for scrap, the artist Mika Tajima considers the translation of an idea into diverse material, pondering what it means to be human.

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