As exhibitions were cancelled, shops closed and publications stopped, the paper that announced them lost its purpose overnight. Flyers for exhibitions that never opened, notices from closed shops, discontinued magazines and newspapers carrying information already out of date: each was a small record of a city that had stopped while people stayed indoors. With the help of the museum’s curators, the studio gathered this paper from across Japan and stacked it into a single mass, an archive of absence placed at the heart of the museum’s public space. From a distance, the work showed the scale of the disruption to cultural and social life. Up close, each sheet told its own story of plans halted and activities silenced. At a time when information felt uncertain and changed by the day, the installation offered something simple: the facts themselves, assembled so that visitors could take stock of what had been lost and where they now stood. Paper printed to be read once and thrown away became, for a few months, a shared record of a moment everyone was living through. The Matter of Facts was commissioned by The National Art Center, Tokyo, supported by the Nomura Foundation and realised in cooperation with Robert Walters Japan.