Masahiko Kuwahara (Tokyo, 1959)
Lonely, discarded toys are a metaphor for Masahiko Kuwahara's own feeling of being swallowed by his materialistic surroundings. The abandoned toys are as witnesses to a time (the seventies) in which too much was produced, consumed and discarded. With the series of transformed animals he confronts the spectators with their own participation in the process of 'progress'.