Join us at LUCA School of Arts (Brussels) for an encounter with photographer Asako Narahashi (°1959). Based in Tokyo, Narahashi explores the relationship between water and land. By photographing primarily from within the water, she offers an unexpected and inverted perspective on the landscape. Her images, imbued with a sense of disorientation and instability, question notions of distance and balance. Narahashi will be in conversation with Marc Feustel, a specialist in Japanese photography.

Free (registration required)  

Conversation : 7 – 8 pm

Location: LUCA School of Arts, Rue des Palais 70, 1030 Bruxelles. Small auditorium C-3,17

In English 

Born in Tokyo in 1959, Asako Narahashi graduated from the Faculty of Letters at Waseda University. She began her career as a photographer after participating in a workshop led by Daido Moriyama and held her first solo exhibition, Dawn in Spring, in 1989. Throughout the 1990s, she worked primarily in black-and-white photography, notably on her NU-E series. Around 2001, she began her acclaimed series half awake and half asleep in the water, which offers a new perspective on landscape photography by incorporating the movement of water in the foreground. Continuing to explore water-based imagery, she has photographed extensively throughout Japan and abroad. Narahashi has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions around the world. Her works are held in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, among others. She has published nearly ten photobooks, including half awake and half asleep in the water (2007) and Ever After (2013).

Marc Feustel is an independent writer, editor and curator based in Paris. A specialist in Japanese photography, he has curated several exhibitions in the field, including Tokyo Stories (Kulturhuset, Stockholm), Eikoh Hosoe: Theatre of Memory (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney), and A Female Perspective (T3 Photo Festival, Tokyo). He is the editor of More than One World: New Japanese Photography 50 Years On (Akaaka, 2025) and has written essays for the following recent publications: I'm So Happy You Are Here (Aperture, 2024); Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present (10x10 Photobooks, 2024); and Photographs by Yoshiyuki Okuyama (Akaaka, 2026). A regular speaker and jury member at photography festivals and events, he hosted the Artist Talks at the Paris Photo art fair from 2019 to 2024.

In collaboration with the Master Photography program, LUCA School of Arts.