Yoshifumi Hayashi The Eternal Hunger of All Things — DOP

Yoshifumi Hayashi
The Eternal Hunger of All Things

March 26 2025

As I browsed through this archive the other day, I felt a distinct absence of raw sexual energy among all these beautiful posts. I’m talking about artists like Toshio Saeki or Hans Bellmer who are not afraid of exposing their carnal hunger without embellishing their most salacious desires. It’s not about provocation; it’s about truth. About acknowledging that primal, unrelenting force that drives all of existence—most blatantly revealed in us, sexed creatures.

I know this hunger well and can attest to the voraciousness of my own mind. And I want this space to serve authenticity in all its forms of expression, beyond good taste and conventional morality.

The oeuvre of Yoshifumi Hayashi (born 1948) is a Cronenbergian testament to this materialist-sensualist faith, a manifestation of vital and sexual desire as an immanent force of nature. As fundamental as electricity or gravity. A law of matter, as Hayashi calls it.

Click the link below to read a more in-depth text about him, taken from his first monograph.

Yoshifumi Hayashi, The alchemy of the brain in lead pencil
by Xavier-Gilles Néret

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