In 1989, Japanese artist Leiko Ikemura, born in 1951 and living in Europe since 1972, came to Switzerland to work in the Grisons mountains for a full year. This retreat proved to be a period of radical artistic reorientation. Inspired by intense experiences of nature, her paintings of that time merge humans and their existential themes into an infinite cosmos.

In Leiko Ikemura: The Sea in the Mountains, published in conjunction with a solo exhibition at the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Ikemura talks to cur