FITTERS

Kanako Hayashi has been developing a series of photographic works in which she uses the gaps between buildings, unevenness in roads, railings, windows, doors, and other parts of buildings and structures seen in the city as “urban frames” to record momentary actions. Using parts of buildings or frameworks differently from their intended function, Hayashi depicts a new landscape within familiar everyday life. By filling the space inside the frame with the human body and objects around us, the relationship between the city and the body emerges. Inside the frame, the subject poses to fit into the given space. For Hayashi, these poses, which are created through a dialogue between the restricted and inconvenient space and the body, embody the freedom of human beings in the midst of inconvenience. The “urban frame” can be replaced by various frames surrounding our daily life, for example, the frame of a nation. People have always lived by finding their own freedom in restriction. In the same way, by recognizing restrictive frames, we can be free to locate ourselves inside and outside of them without being trapped.

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(As of June 2021)

1: 《FITTER》2009年
2: 《FITTER》2020年
3: 《FITTER》2009年

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