An Aesthetic and Hypnotic World Shot with 30 Models Inside the Museum

While the "Kishin Shinoyama: Photography Power" exhibition has been touring museums nationwide since 2012, "House of Pleasure" presents a completely different concept. The theme of this exhibition is for Kishin Shinoyama to transform the Hara Museum, originally a residence completed in 1938, into a "House of Pleasure" through his lens. What exactly does this entail?



All works exhibited in this show are new pieces shot inside the Hara Museum, featuring nude photographs of 30 models. Styling wasby Tomoki Sukezanehandled by. The shooting took place during the museum's closure period for exhibition changeovers.

Shinoyama directed his camera and continuously pressed the shutter at models in various locations within the museum—empty exhibition rooms devoid of art, staircases retaining their original architectural feel, gardens overgrown with trees and scattered with fallen leaves, the normally inaccessible rooftop, and permanent exhibition spaces—capturing them as they stood, sat, lay, jumped, and leaped.