Shibari Art EXPOSED III Manhattan

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“EXPOSED III Manhattan” an artPLAY exclusive shibari art

After the first two chapters of the EXPOSED shibari art series, shot around the Central Park in New York, the team spoke to artPLAY about their ongoing project on the streets of New York and about part III of Exposed, shot in a more urban style of Manhattan.

New York City, where the streets are everyone’s living room, creativity spills over onto the sidewalks and into the parks. There’s simply no other place most people can afford to be. Buskers, film crews, skate teams, performance artists of every persuasion, and protesters all sharing space, with a strong need for social expression. Almost 40 years ago, outlaw artists took their graffiti art from the streets into high-end galleries, and that’s the unutterable hope of street performers, to be someday recognized for their art in a way only the streets of New York offer.

It’s no surprise, then, with the iconic backgrounds of the city, the scarcity of private space, and that dream-filled pursuit of social expression, that we’ve taken shibari to the streets. We aren’t the first, but as yet no one does it quite like we do. We teamed up with Thistle and Spire because we liked their body positivity and diversity in their social media advertising. We are gratified that they see value in what we do and that they are excited about the world of shibari enough to associate their brand with us.

Photography – Dirty Archangel @the_dirty_archangel