Prolific and provocative, Araki Nobuyoshi embraced the Polaroid for its simplicity and immediacy. It served, as Jessica Ragazzini puts it, as a means to “eternally fix the ephemeral,” a notion explored in her review of the Musée Guimet exhibition dedicated to the Japanese photographer. Linked to the donation of a collection of one thousand Polaroids, POLARAKI reflected both Araki’s penchant for excess and his experimental, almost casual approach to image-making, as he cuts, rearranges, and scribbles on his photographs. Ragazzini also notes the complexity of his practice, shaped by themes of eroticism and the traditional art of rope bondage.