Hagiwara Projects’ Inaugural Exhibition in Roppongi’s Piramide Building
To kick off its move to a new Roppongi space in the Piramide Building — a multi-floor complex packed with some of the city’s best galleries — Hagiwara Projects is hosting a solo show by American artist Anna Gaskell. Gaskell initially gained recognition for her cinematic photos of young girls staged in unsettling, fairytale-like compositions, and her works often explore female identity, societal pressure and inner conflict.
Anna Gaskell, Rare Ingredients, 2026. Courtesy of Hagiwara Projects
At the exhibition, you’ll see a new series of oil paintings infused with her signature air of mystery and theatricality. Featuring bold outlines and rich, dark hues, the paintings depict women and girls in eerie, dreamlike scenes. Whether showing a woman wearing a sash labeled “smug” or a girl apprehensively facing a woman on a staircase, the works tap into themes of companionship, expectations and female solidarity, sparking your imagination to fill in the blanks.
