Dream Within a Dream

The exhibition features 26 carefully selected works from his collection of negatives spanning 25 years since around 2000, and represents the series’ debut.

Peculiar signboards, drifting gazes, the sky above, streams of sunlight and the silhouettes it reveals...
As if one were sinking beneath water, with blurred vision and muffled hearing, the experience while looking at these photos evokes the curious sensation of peering into someone else's daydream.



Murakami was born in Tokyo in 1977. After graduating from university, he studied photography at Tokyo Visual Arts. Starting from 2008, he joined the editorial department of Nippon Camera magazine, while also beginning to edit books and photobooks for photographic artists. In 2021, he founded the company PCT and started running the website “Photo & Culture, Tokyo”, and in 2022, he became the editor-in-chief of the photography magazine Sha Shin (Fugensha).