Namio Harukawa Gallery

Harukawa’s style is immediately recognizable for its focus on specific fetishes, most notably facesitting (smothering) and forniphilia

There is also a distinct element of dark comedy and surrealism in a Harukawa exhibition. The sheer repetition of his theme pushes the work into the realm of the absurd. The world he builds has its own internal logic: rooms are scaled to accommodate giant women, furniture is designed for the specific purpose of female domination, and the laws of physics are bent to serve the aesthetic of the submissive act. It is a closed-loop fantasy, a "what if" scenario taken to its most absurd, logical extreme. namio harukawa gallery