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Two photographs capture different aspects of a kinetic sculpture. One shows the mobile at rest, while the other illustrates the mobile moving frenetically, its metal appendages creating bright arcs of light. Kitadai Shōzō’s longstanding interest in light and movement began during his time with Jikken Kōbō, a collective of Japanese interdisciplinary and performance artists that he cofounded in 1951. Fellow member Yamaguchi Katsuhiro described Jikken Kōbō as the “Bauhaus without a building.” These pictures resulted from a collaboration between Kitadai and the surrealist painter Hamada Hamao.