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Kazuo Kitai – Iroha

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In 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 for a hybrid form, somewhere between calligraphy and painting. This work marks a break in his practice: it is no longer about bearing witness, bu

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