Masumi Hayashi at The Brick

Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism

Getty/PST ART · The Brick, Los Angeles · 2024

Installation view of three Masumi Hayashi panoramic photo collages at The Brick, Los Angeles, 2024 — EPA Superfund sites series — Installation view, *Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism*, The Brick, Los Angeles, 2024. Three panoramic photo collages by Masumi Hayashi. Courtesy the Masumi Hayashi Foundation.

Republic Steel Quarry, Site 666, Elyria, Ohio, 1989 — Panoramic photo collage by Masumi Hayashi — **Republic Steel Quarry, Site 666**
Elyria, Ohio, 1989
40 × 20 in. — Courtesy Stephen White

Industrial Excess Landfill, Uniontown, Ohio, 1990 — Panoramic photo collage by Masumi Hayashi — **Industrial Excess Landfill**
Uniontown, Ohio, 1990
32 × 26 in. — Courtesy of the Masumi Hayashi Foundation

Summit National, Deerfield Township, Ohio, 1990 — Panoramic photo collage by Masumi Hayashi — **Summit National**
Deerfield Township, Ohio, 1990
30 × 27 in. — Courtesy of the Masumi Hayashi Foundation

These three panoramic photo collages — made between 1989 and 1990 — are part of Masumi Hayashi's EPA Superfund series, which documents contaminated industrial sites across Ohio. Each assembles dozens of individual photographs into a fractured panorama, creating images that are simultaneously documentary evidence and formal elegy. Their inclusion in Life on Earth, a landmark ecofeminist exhibition backed by Getty/PST ART, placed Hayashi's work in direct conversation with eighteen international artists linking environmental destruction and gender oppression.