| by Maria Rosaria Roseo | In Katsura Takasuka’s practice, textiles are never neutral matter: they are an archive, a system of thought, a critical device, and a means to interrogate the future. From the beginning of his career, textiles have not functioned for him as a mere medium, but as an originating space from which to question the present. Born in Tokyo in 1986 and trained in textile design at Tokyo Zokei University, where he also completed a master’s degree in 2011 and where he now teaches, Takasuka develops research that uses textiles as a key to explore the relationship between humans and nature, considering the genesis and production…