Hammer Projects: Oliver Payne and Keiichi Tanaami

A series of collaborative works by artists Oliver Payne and Keiichi Tanaami represents a world populated by Japanese idols, monsters, and ancient deities set amid icons from popular Japanese “bullet hell” arcade games.

In a suite of collages, Payne and Tanaami merge their distinct artistic sensibilities with histories of desire and consumption into a single hallucinatory fantasy. This presentation marks the first collaboration between the artists.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.