"Forms in Flux" is the second in a series of exhibition exchanges between Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Nagoya and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. On view at the Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts January 12–May 6, 2013, the exhibition features six artists: Hisashi Kurachi, Nobuyuki Osaki and Noriyori Shirakawa from Aichi University; and from the SMFA, Fritz Buehner, Barbara Gallucci and Mary Ellen Strom.

Addressing transformation and fluctuation, each artist gives shape to the sense of an accelerating mutability between objects and places. A spectrum of forms, meanings and contexts are here altered to create the experience of new spaces. All of the work is keenly attuned to processes, not only diverse processes of production, but also, fundamentally, a shared process—the artists are also teachers. It is through their common commitment to the exchange of ideas in their work as artists and educators, that they each suggest new forms of connectedness.

"Forms in Flux" is more than an overview of individual works, it is a suggestion about how we understand the present. Above all, the exhibition asks us to consider the question of space not simply as a location or a place, but in a more generalized sense, as a pressing historical transformation that focuses the many attributes of a now global condition.