AWA no HIBI

Hajime SAWATARI

4/10 - 5/17/2025
GALLERY HOURS | Thu.–Sat. 11:00–13:00, 14:00–19:00
CLOSED | Sun–Wed., National Holidays
※Golden Week Holidays | April 27 - May 6

AKIO NAGASAWA Gallery Aoyama is pleased to announce AWA no HIBI, a solo exhibition by Hajime Sawatari.

Hajime Sawatari’s artistic practice has been navigating the intersection of reality and fiction, capturing a delicate boundary by portraying a female model. For this exhibition, the artist features a woman who is alone at home in the afternoon. Her gestures and expressions, caught in a natural and unadorned state, are both fictional and yet offer a glimpse of reality. While the images are drawn from Sawatari’s imagination, they resonate with authentic moments that aim to capture the ephemeral essence of the reality that exists beyond the fictional realm. Manipulating this unique aspect of photography, the artist invites the audience to be drawn into the interplay between non-fiction and fiction.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Akio Nagasawa Publishing will release a same-titled photobook. We look forward to your visit.

Model: Bambi Watanabe

《Simultaneous Exhibition》
HYSTERIC GLAMOUR AWA no HIBI
Dates: April 12 2025 (Sat) – May 11 2025 (Sun)
Venue: HYSTERIC GLAMOUR SHIBUYA
6-23-2 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (Irregular holidays / 11:00 - 20:00)
https://www.hystericglamour.jp

Artist

Born 1940 in Tokyo. Began to publish his works in photography magazines and elsewhere while still enrolled at the Department of Photography, College of Art, Nihon University. After working for Nippon Design Center, he became a freelance photographer in 1966. While working mainly as a fashion photographer, he has been publishing his works in numerous magazines such as Camera Mainichi. He produced a large number of masterful works including Alice, inspired by Alice in Wonderland, and Nadia, containing photos of an Italian fashion model (both 1973), and has since been continuously operating in the front lines of his field. Photo books include Nadia: Forest Sprite, Alice (both 1973), Taste of Honey ('90), 60's and 60's 2 (2001), and kinky ('09) and Nadia('16).

Publication

AWA no HIBI

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Hajime Sawatari’s artistic practice has been navigating the intersection of reality and fiction, capturing a delicate boundary by portraying a female model. For this exhibition, the artist features a woman who is alone at home in the afternoon.　Her gestures and expressions, caught in a natural and unadorned state, are both fictional and yet offer a glimpse of reality. While the images are drawn from Sawatari’s imagination, they resonate with authentic moments that aim to capture the ephemeral essence of the reality that exists beyond the fictional realm. Manipulating the unique aspect of photography, the artist invites the audience　into the interplay between non-fiction and fiction.

《Exhibition Information》
Hajime Sawatari『AWA no HIBI』
2025.04.12 - 05.17
@AKIO NAGASAWA Gallery Ginza

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