Kinky City (words by Fernando Alvarez Busca) by Pawel Jaszczuk (November 23, 2009) 
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Curator Statement by The Black Snapper
The work presented here shows us a small glimpse of the Tokyo fetish scene. Its practices are alien and difficult to understand for me and relevant questions are raised in the project's introduction text. In my personal life sexuality is strongly connected with vulnerability, trust, even with shame. For this reason I understand Pawel's inquisitive needs very well. I engaged on a comparable venture in 2008, portraying young women who work in what is referred to as the adult film industry. The form chosen in this essay, coarse black and white photography, may keep viewers divided. Some may find it a cliche, others may welcome it for its ability to avoid the dirtyness to some extent. Kinky City is a strong story with emotionally charged photographs.
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Piggy costumes, dolls, needles and thread, it's girl play material. Grown ups play too. In a city where restraint and seriousness are the rules that produce a collective harmony difficult to find elsewhere, at night some people leave their working suits and go play in the huge circus of sex.
The choice is huge: fetish parties, fetish bars, happening bars, private sex parties. The list of places, situations, events and people never ends. In Kinky City the fetish sex scene is so massive that it takes a long time to grasp the fire that pushes those adventurous and naughty boys and girls.
People who look like real dolls, dolls who look like real people, hooks, dildos, ropes, leashes. The touch of leather, the strange pleasure of toying with a needle.
But what pleasure is there for a woman in being tied, and hung by skilled hands in the shibari art and penetrated with an incandescent candle? What obscure, hard to identify need does her husband fulfill?
The swingers that just had sex with other couples, how do they dissociate love from sex? What's the subtle enjoyment of being watched by the public while your girlfriend blows another man and you ride that man's wife.
It's the quest for the unknown, maybe the forbidden, inconfessable dreams shared by people who find in Kinky City a goodness that allow her servants the elixir that no other city can provide.
Pawel Jaszczuk (1978) lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.
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