Gallery Speak For, located in Tokyo's Daikanyama district, is decidedly not like other galleries.

Instead of developing particular themes for different shows, Speak For has taken up the inspirational mandate of using one year-long theme for all exhibitions held (they usually run about a month).

Newly opened a year ago, Speak For adopted the theme of "reality" for 1999. This year their theme of "irregular" looks at the flip side of reality, to reconstruct a more complete representation of contemporary life.