With her last exhibition Sufficiently Near, Hanako Murakami continued her exploration of the forms that photography could have taken. In her previous exhibition Past Future, organized in the same Odéon gallery in 2022, the artist presented Field of Possibilities (2022), a sculptural work composed of various processes across different media. For Sufficiently Near, she dedicated her focus exclusively to the thermography process, with each piece titled Possibility (Thermography). "By exploring the ancient processes of photography, I discover what photography could have been — possible scenarios that have not been exploited," Murakami wrote. Thermography, a reproduction technique using heat instead of light, was developed in 1842 by Ludwig Moser (1805-1880) but was overshadowed by the official announcement of the daguerreotype in 1839. For Hanako Murakami, thermography represents one of the unexploited possibilities in the history of photography.

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