A new exhibition from Berlin Kink Collective Time to Shine, exploring the boundaries of kink, bondage, fetish and trust in art.

Using photography, collage, screenprinting, animating and performance to show how kink and trust are interwoven.

Artists:

L’aDios

A New Yorker who has found her home in Berlin, L’aDios is a dominatrix, comedian, painter, dancer and model. She embraced her artistic talents in NYC, performing immersive theatre at Dixon Place and The Producers Club.

Her exhibition “Her Stories That Bind Us” at Agni zotis Gallery in 2012 involved paintings created while mummifying models, establishing a relationship where their stories were told on the canvas over their bodies and these canvases were then exhibited.

Her motto never give up, never surrender. L’aDios shares her loves, aches and her transformation into an independent-thinking woman. She is proud to be queer and not perfect and enjoys waking up in the afternoon.

Terry Saunders

Storyteller, writer, comedian, animator, and printmaker, Terry crafts stories of love, romance, and loneliness on a tapestry of the kink and fetish world. He weaves tales using all the mediums at his disposal.

As a comedian he featured on the Top Ten list of UK standup by Time Out magazine, had his own BBC Radio 4 show and six Edinburgh Fringe runs blending storytelling, animation, and illustration into a truly unique comedic tapestry into his own take of love and despair.

Discovering fetish and latex in his twenties, Terry avoided it in his art and hid it in his life until a move to Berlin where now his kink practices inform his art and vice versa .

Delia Vair

Delia Vair is a self-taught visual artist based in Berlin. In her practice she uses photography to explore facets of the self, articulated around topics like fetishism, the subconscious and the outsider.

With a background in design and architecture, she explored various means of visual expression in the past. In 2019 she began to use photography to capture the emotional realm of shibari, japanese rope bondage which she practices actively.

From this stylised, documentary perspective evolved a narrative, conceptual mode of expression, conjuring a sense of alienation for life in contemporary society. Her work reflects on the experience of struggling with inner and outer demons.

Willi Tomes

Willi works in the field of sculpture, collage, assemblage, drawing, installation and performance.

He graduated as Master of fine arts at Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin in 2006 and has been artist in residence at Klunkerkranich (Berlin) since 2013. Since 2006 he has participated in various group and solo exhibitions in Germany and Europe.

His works focus on the reuse and upgrade of materials like wood, vinyl, sandpaper or leathers including his workshops to build your own flogger at iksk (Berlin).