KOKI ARTS is pleased to announce IPG's first exhibition in Japan, "In Search of the Crying Lady". IPG is an experimental collaborative project between two photographers, Yoshi and Tamara Kametani (both residing in New Jersey). IPG projects consist of documenting images the two stumble across and find interesting during their journey in a certain place. The results created are often images that are poetic and even ethereal.

"In Search of the Crying Lady" was a project that took place in Slovakia in 2011. It has been said that the tradition of hiring professional mourners to lament the deceased until the day of the funeral still existed in some parts of Slovakia. The project's initial goal to find and research these professional mourners ultimately failed as they could not find any traces of them. This result, however may perhaps suggest the death of a tradition. This exhibition will showcase approximately 10 images Yoshi and Tamara had encountered during their search for the ritual mourners

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