Natsumi Aoyagi. Fábulas Sanitárias

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Natsumi Aoyagi (Tokyo, 1990) is a contemporary artist and poet who works with time-based media. Her artistic practice seeks to reveal presences and transformations often ignored by established systems and records, combining poetic language with images. The artist presents her first solo exhibition in Portugal with the project Sanitary Fables, a video installation that investigates and problematizes the sewage and public hygiene infrastructures of Lisbon, tracing their flows through the city. By rethinking sanitation—now taken for granted—the work proposes a rediscovery of contemporary society through allegory and non-human perspectives. Hygiene is eisei, a Japanese word for sanitation, here understood as the act of defending one's own life.