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Last one of the year!

Las máscaras de Tinku (Ukukus), que en aymara significa "ataque físico", han dado una resignificación a la acción corporal en el contexto de la revu3lta social, apropiándose de aspectos culturales para canalizarlo en el activismo político y de resistencia artística en las manifestaciones chilenas.

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Seen: Charanga

Who: 甲斐啓二郎  Keijiro Kai   (website)

Where: Totem Pole Photo Gallery, Shinjuku

When: May 14 - 26, 2019  /  12:00-19:00 /  Closed Mondays

Keijiro Kai has for several years now been wading into high-impact, testosterone-filled festivals around the world with his Mamiya 7 and rolls and rolls of Fuji Pro 400H film. His current exhibition, "Charanga", is of Tinku festivities, a Bolivian Quechua of traditional, ritualistic combat. 

In amongst the dust and men and flying fists Kai pulled out images that never directly explain "why" and just barely "where"-  rather than explain, Kai's work carefully, through it's denial of traditional travel/sports photographic technique, denies a clean reading of the possible meaning of what's shown. 

A freelance sports photographer, Kai knows how to do his day job- but his personal work is exciting precisely because it is unsettlingly shot, chaotically shot, and beautifully presented. He's self-published two books already: one of the rowdy red-faced Royal Shrovetide Football Match in Derbyshire, England called Shrove Tuesday and Wounded Bears, a book of the Dosojin fire festival held in Nagano, Japan. 

Dance!