The 17th Biennale of Sydney opened last week with the theme 'the beauty of distance: songs of survival in a precarious age.' Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto created an installation named Faraday Cage which was specifically conceived for the location of the event - cockatoo island - a former convict prison and dockyard for shipbuilding in Sydney harbour. Sugimoto photographs static electricity on film and then displays them in light boxes. The result is dramatic and reminds us of a common Japanese aesthetic we've seen before and liked.