In Tokyo, Margiela’s art exhibition creates a haunting house

In a prewar Spanish-style concrete mansion in the center of Tokyo, a dim light illuminates sparse exhibits accompanied by enigmatic labels. Chairs are stacked as if forgotten, left unreturned to their places; amorphous sculptures occupy the bathroom; semitransparent plastic sheets hang along the walls. It’s as though the artist dissected his own works like a coroner attempting to determine the cause of death of art’s representation.