Artist Sachi Miyachi (she is currently showing this exhibition at Kunstmuseum M.) told us that during her studies she recreated Japanese land art artist Nobuo Sekine's Phase-Mother Earth project (part of the Mono-ha movement) - and it wasn't easy. The Mono-ha movement was formed by Japanese and Korean artists who began their careers in the 1960s, which were also characterized there by protest and experimentation. They explored the fusion of natural and industrial materials, based on the idea that advancing industrialization meant that the use of traditional artists' materials no longer made sense. Tate's site reports: “As the movement gained international recognition, and through its association with arte povera, mono-ha came to be widely respected as a movement that was critically engaged.”