Bondage Forgery C 

Kinbaku (bondage) means to bind tightly with a rope. In sexual love, it refers to the intensification of love or pleasure through the act of binding or being bound. This is one of the works created for the museum’s special exhibition, “MOGI Kenichiro, hana, KAKUTA Mitsuyo, ARAKI Nobuyoshi: Four Views of the Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art.” It was inspired by Shimomura Kanzan’s Copy of “The Knight Errant” (after Sir John Everett Millais), which is owned by the museum.
Araki argues that people and the time they inhabit are “original,” and that photographing them is akin to stealing or reproducing the originality of their life. By addressing sexual love in this work he added Bondage Forgery to his existing Bondage series. Incidentally, the male model seen here is a curator from the museum chosen by Araki.
(YATSUYANAGI Sae)