Echoes of Kinbaku - Art exhibition
- Avoimet ovet studiolla Lauantaina 18.1.2025 klo. 14-17
Tervetuloa Studio Mothin Lutakon studion avajaisiin tutustumaan uuteen tilaan ja samalla shibariin Eurooppalaisia kinbaku-artisteja esittelevän taidenäyttelyn kautta.
Näyttely esittelee anteeksipyytelemättömällä intensiteetillä Japanilaisen eroottisen sidonnan eri muotoja poikkitaiteellisesta muotokuvauksesta aina erotisismin syviin vesiin. Näyttely sisältää seksuaalista bdsm/fetish-aiheista kuvastoa ja pääsy tiloihin on K18 (kuten Studio Mothin tiloihin aina).
Studiolla pientä juotavaa ja naposteltavaa. Tervetuloa tutustumaan!
Avoimet ovet klo. 17 asti, jonka jälkeen muutaman tunnin valmistelutauko ja klo. 19 starttaa Lutakon ensimmäinen Rope Night. Lisätiedot ja liput iltatapahtumaan täältä.
Swen Brandy explores the profound connection between body and mind in unique, often challenging situations. Inspired by the concepts of “The Easy Way” and “When Masks Fall,” he highlights the transformative power of nonverbal communication for play, sexuality, and relationships. His motto: “When the final mask falls, beauty unfolds in its highest form.”
Combining BDSM, fetish, and sex-positive themes with photography and film, Brandy creates deeply personal experiences that push emotional and physical boundaries. Beyond documentation, his work captures the essence of intense shared moments.
He guides individuals and couples in exploring BDSM-oriented play and offers expertise in creatively documenting these experiences. Key themes include physical challenges, edge play,
Signor G. (real name Stefano Gervasoni) is an italian photographer specialized in black and white fetish, BDSM and nude subjects.
He was born in Milan in 1974, where he still lives and works.
His work is a photographic exploration journey through the Italian and European BDSM scene, using portraiture to describe the human, intimate and personal identities of those within the community.
BDSM deals with themes of identity, self-determination, and individual freedom. It is a way of expressing one’s identity through personal imagery, and a means of bringing it into real life and sharing it with like-minded individuals at meetups, events, play parties, and via social media. His portraits tells the stories of people who, by wearing a mask or an outfit do not hide themselves, but rather reveal their true and complete selves. People who live bondage as a path to self-discovery, emotional and cathartic, where the focus is always on the human factor.
stefano.gervasoni.milano@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/signor_g._vi/
https://signorg.myportfolio.com/
Originally born Swedish, nowadays professionally nomadic, Andy Buru spent the past twenty years as an owned slave, a leather daddy, a hedonist, a purist, a magician, and a princess slut.
Andy, as a photographer, aims to document the eros of their own perversion. Hence, there are a few rules: All photos must be from ‘real’ play (compared to an arranged photoshoot with a professional model and/or photographer). And taking the photo is more important than displaying the photo, but even more important is playing. This way, the camera becomes a tool for framing a perspective/a private moment (in time and space). It’s both ‘real’ and simultaneously narrating fantasy. Hopefully, one that is intimate and vulnerable, both for the person being portrayed but also for Andy, whose eros drives the situation. Often, this project doesn’t result in any pictures, either, because there is no space in the play to take distance, reach for the camera, and become the voyeur of his own desire. Or the photos ended up too private and, therefore, deleted.
You can read more about this perspective in chapter 15, Witnessed, of Andy’s book Rituals and Paradoxes: The Intimacy of Belonging in Sadomasochism and Esoteric Eroticism. Or join one of their recurring retreats or curated participatory rituals exploring the subject.
Saara Kantanen is an artist, performer, shibari and kinbaku practioner and teacher from Finland. She lives in the countryside with her family and animals like the wild viking woman. She is co-owner of the kinbaku studio Kakumei Kan in the heart of Helsinki.
Shibari has become a way of life and a passion for her. She’s been working several years shibari as her main job. She organizes popular workshops in her farm and many places in Europe: selftying, weekend workshops for couples and private sessions and tuitions. Saara will participate in several events this year both in Finland and abroad.
Saara’s photographs are documentation from authentic sessions where intimate experience and emotions as well as aesthetic pleasure is elegantly presented.
Amélie Benichou Gleize, Born in 1983, lives and works in Avignon, France. After artistic studies and jobs in various fields, the practice of drawing came to meet my taste for the simplicity of a frank line, simple colors and the important place left to reserve and my desire to explore the representation of the human being and women in particular.
It is exciting for me to stay within the framework of the nude, the exploration is infinite and the graphic research of the means to best represent my gaze is rich in lessons. I work to question eroticism, the secret and the choice of what each person wants to show. The representation of shibari naturally fits into this context thanks to the powerful proposition of letting go that this practice induces.