Unfamiliar People, 2020-2022, by Takashi Murakami (Japanese, b.1962). Image courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.

This new work (which lends its title to the exhibition) depicts how, in the artist's words: "After the pandemic started, some people who used to lead normal lives started to hold and loudly voice strong opinions, or turned out to be vaccine conspiracy theorists, or started attacking others out of an astonishingly intense sense of fear. Some who used to seem absolutely kind had abruptly changed, and I felt that it was impossible to understand human beings just by looking at the surface."

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• Approx. Measurements: 118 x 90 cm, 46.46 x 35.43 inches
• 100% Silk
• Made in France