Iroha - Kazuo Kitai wine Chris Liebing

Chris Liebing

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Tillmans also shows images of the Silver works in exhibition settings: as ele-ments of installations

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We follow this tortuous path of sensitivity and imperfection with an eager heart

Iroha - Kazuo Kitai wine Chris LiebingIn this new series, Kazuo Kitai revisits his own photographic archives: faces, bodies under tension, marching crowds, fragments of resistance. Known for documenting the protest movements in Japan during the 1960s, he now chooses to reactivate these images through a radical gesture. By tearing his silver prints and covering them with paint, Kitai transforms photography into raw material. The documentary becomes abstraction; the image becomes a surface