Mari Katayama

One day, corpses fall from the sky like a torrential rain. DEATH (The Crazy SKB), a man who has fallen among the corpses, gathers together with Matilda, a woman with no legs, Linda, a woman with one leg missing, and a killer for "a plan". The plan was a punk plan that no one could imagine. A man with cerebral palsy decides to commit indiscriminate terrorist murders; a female office worker whose grief runs wild; a yakuza who is forced to modify their body; and a punkster who wants to kill all the police. The moment all the sorrows become one, they ascend into the universe...

just one of those things is part of a new series of work made at the relaunch of High Heel Project in 2022. Katayama layers cut-out legs and high heels on top of her self-portrait, animating them to create a moving collage. She comments, 'The most important thing is not that everyone should wear high heels, but that, first and foremost, we should have the freedom to say what we want and what we don't want. With the goal of freedom of choice open to all, I must continue to walk and speak up wearing symbolic and extreme high heels: