Asako Narahashi
half awake and half asleep in the water
Since 2011, Asako Narahashi has been photographing Japan’s lakeshores and marine coastlines from the water itself, as she actually immerses herself in it. By flooding the spectator’s eye behind the waves, her views of Mount Fuji create an unexpected connection between water and land. Displayed with the Alps as a backdrop, the images swung according to the flow of the lake, thanks to an ingenuous hydro-mechanical system conceived in collaboration with Bachelor students in Industrial Design at ECAL. The Japanese photographer’s half awake and half asleep in the water series extended the unprecedented experience when, given good weather, Le Catogne, the famous Swiss peak on the edge of Mont Blanc, appeared in the background like a distant relative of Mount Fuji.
