Yoshitomo Nara, Miss Moonlight, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 220 x 195cm [Photo by Kioku Keizo/provided to China Daily]

Yoshitomo Nara is known for using children and animals in simplistic, abstract and misshapen forms, across conflicting dispositions from innocence to cruelty that inspire the imagination of the viewer. Nara's solitary protagonists represent those living on society's margins, but with their depictions of the whereabouts of the soul, they take on analmost primitive form that transcends time.Fifteen of the artist's early works from the 1980s are being shown for the firsttime as well as a new piece, Miss Moonlight.

Fusing elements of Buddhist thought and technology, Tatsuo Miyajima tackles the universal notion of time by way of installations and sculptures that usedigital LED counters displaying changingnumbers from one to nine. Since 2017, he has been working continuously on Sea of Time – Tohoku, an attemptto install 3,000 LEDcounters innortheast Japan's Tohoku region, as tribute to the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. Stars presents a new work featuring all the digital counters made to date for Sea of Time – Tohoku.