With a deep-rooted interest in psychoanalysis, artist Tessa Kuragi explains her fascination with Sigmund Freud’s theories of pleasure and pain, and that unconscious fantasy and dream life may constitute the essence of reality. Kuragi’s daytime pursuits are a world apart from the shibari bondage of her nights, yet the two elements make up her person as a whole. While fetishism plays with the interaction of the symbolic, the imaginary and the real, so too do Kuragi’s fantasies…
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