photography by Sam Crawford
Read Our Interview Of Charlotte Edey on the Occasion of Her Solo Exhibition @ Ginny on Frederick in London →
Charlotte Edey is a London-based visual artist who adopts a multidisciplinary practice as a form of personal and political expression. Drawing on a multitude of themes, her work addresses notions of femininity, gender, body politic, and mythology. Edeyβs tapestry, embroidery and sculptural pieces are extensions of her drawing practice, and her distinct artistic language focuses heavily on symbolism and the investigation of space. Recognized for their surreal dreamscapes and pastel palette, she employs a recurring water motif that takes inspiration from Ovidβs βMetamorphoses,β which serves as an investigation of βhydrofemininity,β and the belief that our bodies are fundamentally part of the natural world.
Edeyβs newest body of work, Framework, is currently on view at Ginny on Frederick. In this exhibition, a dialogue between each piece has been created by the artist as she examines various ways to blur the boundary between the real and the represented through the motif of the window and frame. Using these as a point of departure, she explores the notion of transparency to identify and differentiate between interior and exterior, public and private. Her intricately detailedβhand sewn and beadedβtapestry works and larger mirrored pieces are symbolic gateways that gently interrogate interior space, identity, and observation. We spoke on the occasion of Frameworkβs opening to discuss her development in recent years, as well as her interest in the symbolic interplay between windows, frames, and eyes. Read more.
First reprisal (sometimes Iβm afraid if I disregard someone elseβs story) by Polina Boyko, Bianca Nicolucci & Marzia Comuzio
photography by Polina Boyko
styling by Bianca Nicolucci & Marzia Comuzio
makeup by Yoko Minami
hair by Yoko Okuno
talents Miriam @ PRM Agency & Jasmine
lighting by Alexander Retnik
photography assistance by Oriana
makeup assistance by Lala
Leave Your Thoughts On Boobs After The Tone: Read Our Interview of Carly Randall On Her New Short Film "TITS" →
Carly Randall is a visual artist, filmmaker and creative producer. Her work explores issues and themes that specifically impact women in modern society. These include knife crime, online bullying and filter culture, as seen in her multi-award-winning dance film, FILTERFACE: Double Tap to Like, which examines how social media filter culture affects the mental health of young women.
In 2022, Carly was awarded a Develop Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England to create a 2-minute-long, educational art film that exposes the language men use to talk about womenβs breasts, highlighting the ubiquitously misogynistic and objectifying attitudes. Carly set up a hotline for teenage boys and young men to share their honest opinions on womenβs breasts via voicemail. She created posters to promote the hotline, strategically placing them in prime locations around Londonβs East End Borough of Hackney (sometimes up to 200 a go), and shared with universities, colleges and friends who posted them in city centres nationally to ensure a diverse response that fairly depicts the breadth of the UK. To accompany the voicemails, Carly worked with a casing agent to bring together a selection of women from around the UK to shoot and film their breastsβthose which our patriarchal society have deemed βundesirable": too flat, too big, odd nipplesβ¦
Carly has created a unique social experiment that creatively dramatizes the disparity between the βfantasyβ and the βrealityβ of womenβs breasts as a result of unrealistic representations created by the porn industry, perpetuated across social media and reaffirmed by patriarchal conditioning. I spoke with Carly about her motivations behind the art piece, how Playboy inspired her backdrop for the art film, and her main takeaways from listening to the voicemails. Click here to read more and watch the film.
Cultural Fabric: A 3-day Event @ Fotografiska Berlin On View March 23rd to 25th
Before opening its flagship museum space, slated for the second half of 2023, Fotografiska Berlin is focusing on an inclusive pre-opening program, the goal of which is to cross-connect the cityβs various creative industries. Cultural Fabric is a 3-day exhibition of photography hosted by that is dedicated to a rereading of the relationship between art and fashion practices.
Seven artists, both Berlin-based and international, will explore the main theme in a group exhibition, showcasing their work at Atelier Gardens. The multidisciplinary show is curated by Marina Paulenka (Director of Exhibitions at Fotografiska Berlin and former Artistic Director of Organ Vida and Unseen) and Thomas SchΓ€fer (Exhibition Manager at Fotografiska Berlin). With their practices operating at the intersection of fashion and photography, the following artists will be presented: Julie Poly, Carlota Guerrero, and Mous Lamrabat, with more to be announced soon.
Cultural Fabric is on view March 23-25 @ Berlinβs Atelier Gardens (formerly BUFA) OberlandstraΓe 26 β 35, 12099 Berlin
Sculpting Presence by Debora Brune & Camille Naomi Franke
photography by Debora Brune @dilleragency
styling by Camille Naomi Franke
styling assistant Antonio Chiocca
hair by Noriko Takayama
hair color by Julia SΓ€fstrΓΆm @ kurkowitz
makeup by Janette Peters
modeling by Julia @ Mint Management, Aeyden @ Elixavier
photo assistance by Isabel Spantzel, Johanna Dietz
Watch "It's a Setup to Be Fed Up" By Federico Nessi for Reward If Found
creative direction & sound design by Federico Nessi
cinematography by Jeff Bierman
styling by Hind Matar
photography by Senem GΓΌneΕ
movement direction by Breckyn DΓ‘vila Drescher
modeling by Nubia
This intimate video directed by Federico Nessi dives us straight into the world of Mohamed Khattabi's emerging genderless brand, Reward if Found.
Through the private act of dressing, Federico and his creative team use the wardrobe to take the viewer on a journey. The yokes and fabrics bring us right back home, and the pieces act as a protective layer, a comforting garment, but also a strong statement of our ethnic origins.
Giuseppe Penone's Universal Gestures Opens @ Galleria Borghese in Rome with the Participation of Fendi
On March 13th, over thirty works by the Master of Arte Povera, Giuseppe Penone, were revealed at the Galleria Borghese in Rome in participation with Fendi, weaving a new dialogue between nature and history. Created between the 1970s and the early 2000s, this body of work curated by Francesco Stocchi demonstrates the immutable vitality of sculpture, and in attendance were some of Italyβs most prominent figures in art, fashion, and entertainment.
The exhibition stems from the search for something that is not present in the splendid spaces of the Galleria, offering a new reading of the relationship between landscape and sculpture that the ancient statuary present in the museumβs collection embodies according to classical canons. A path that is in perfect continuity with the research on the relationship between Art and Nature that characterizes the direction of Francesca Cappelletti.
Giuseppe Penone. Universal Gestures does not propose any comparison but presents works chosen as a βreflectionβ with respect to the environment, offering a βcompletionβ of elements: in the rooms characterised by a triumph of marbles, sculptures and decorations β magnificent representations of the mineral world β Penone adds an organic graft of leaves, leather, wood that connects and defines the two universes. In the Gardens, on the other hand, the integration looks to the world of metals, with bronze sculptures that dialogue with the rich surrounding vegetation, enriched by around forty new potted plants to support some of the works.
The exhibition itinerary includes nuclei of lesser-known works that are less associated iconographically with Penoneβs work, such as Vegetal Gaze, and others exhibited for the first time in thematic groups β Breath of leaves and To breathe the shadow β inserted into the space as autonomous and original presences. In the absence of mythology in Penoneβs work, the narrative shifts its axis, and the relationship between natural time and historical past gives rise to a new, uncertain present.
Distancing itself from any possible formal or symbolic comparison with the Galleria, Penoneβs work observes matter by revealing the forms it conceals, with the intention of reactivating the natural osmotic exchange between the museum and the surrounding park, which inspired many of the works composing the museumβs collection.
The artistβs interventions do not disrupt the unique balance between form and architecture that characterizes the Galleria, but renew that entirely Baroque game that intertwined landscape, nature and sculpture, activating a new dialogue, presenting a question on sculpture, revealing its historical and contemporary evolution.
Giuseppe Penone. Universal Gestures is on view through May 28th @ Galleria Borghese, Piazzale Scipione Borghese, 5 00197 Roma.
Wayne McGregor's "Woolf Works" Premieres @ The Royal Opera House in London
text by Lara Monro
βThe book is not form that you see but emotion that you feelβ
β Virginia Woolf
Born in Stockport in 1970, Wayne McGregor CBE completed his dance studies at Breton Hall College at the University of Leeds and the Jose Limon School in New York. His signature experimental style is defined by accelerated speeds and sharply articulated detail paired with an intellectual quality that explores the theatrical possibilities of technology and science. In 1992, he established the dance company Random Dance and was also appointed choreographer in residence at The Place. Over the last decade he has created works for Paris Opera House, New York City Ballet and Teatro Alla Scarla, to name a few.
McGregorβs appointment as The Royal Balletβs Resident Choreographer in 2006 was considered a radical break from tradition given that his reputation was strongly rooted in contemporary dance. His masterpiece, Woolf Works, is exemplary of his ability to transcend the confines of what ballet should or shouldnβt be. At its premiere in 2015, it was met with outstanding critical acclaim, winning McGregor the Criticsβ Circle Award for Best Classical Choreography and the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production.
This March, the Royal Opera House are bringing back the three act performance, which presents a physical manifestation of Virginia Woolfβs complex literary pieces; Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and The Waves. It is a Gesamtkunstwerk of movement, sound, design and light that are indissolubly linked. Max Richter's score takes us on a transcendental journey, delving into the three distinct universes of Woolfβs works while Lucy Carterβs lighting design and Morizt Jungβs costumes seamlessly complement and translate her rich inner narratives. All the while, McGregorβs choreography carries the musical fingerprint and enforces the fully authentic voice of the author.
Act one delves into Woolfβs famous novel, Mrs. Dalloway, which details a day in the life of the fictional upper-class woman, Clarissa Dalloway. Alessandra Ferri, the 59-year-old Royal Ballet principal, embodies both Woolf and Clarissa while the multi-layered, elusive web of music, I now, I then, begins with a recording of Woolf from 1937 reading her essay βOn Craftmanshipβ before it develops into disparate and melodic strands. Movement and sound offer a stream of consciousness into the past choices and present realities of the book's three main characters: Septimus, Peter, and Sally. This includes a powerful representation of Septimusβs shellshock as a WWI veteran through contorted bodies and jarring movement.
In act two, classical and contemporary styles clash and collide; bodies shape-shift, becoming one before they break apart. Fractured and flowing they represent the transformative qualities of Orlando; a journey into the main protagonistβs transformation from man to woman, and their ability to time travel over centuries. The stage becomes a sci-fi playground as the universe and dancers continually evolve. Adorned in golden Elizabethan ruffs and androgynous garments, laser beams capture the dancersβ pointe shoes like comets streaking through the air. The musical score, Becomings, mixes the classical with contemporary as Richter meshes La Folia from the 17th century with electronic, analogue modular synthesis, sequencing and digital processing.
In act three, we move away from the intense and high energy performance of Orlando into the most consciously poetic of Woolfβs works, The Waves. Regarded as her most experimental piece, the novel follows its six narrators from childhood through adulthood with a strong focus on the individual consciousness. Pounding waves occupy a large screen while Gillian Andersonβs voice introduces the act by reading Woolfβs last note to her husband before taking her life in 1941. The poignancy and emotional depths of the final scene are complemented by Richterβs score, Tuesday. The melodic contours build over twenty minutes with a beautifully haunting solo soprano carrying the dancers until they gradually evaporate into darkness. Fassi is left alone. Like a gentle wave meeting the shore, she folds out motionless onto the stage; a subtle yet profound symbol of Woolfβs tragic end and that of the performance.
Woolfβs words dissolve in McGregorβs gesuntkunstwerk yet still manage to possess their literary wonder. Thanks to the collaborative mastery; the dancersβ unfathomable skill and dramatic performances, the music, lighting, and design β we are able to comprehend the beautifully complex world of Woolf and her works.
Woolf Works is playing at the Royal Opera House until March 23. Click here to reserve tickets
Nicodim Gallery Presents DISEMBODIED Group Show in New York
DISEMBODIED, curated by Ben Lee Ritchie Handler, builds and continues conversations around the violence, ecstasy, and epiphany within out-out-body experiences as-seen from the perspective of those on the groundβthe leaps of faith we take to believe those who say their souls depart while their bodies remain. The works in the exhibition cover a wide swath of allegorical and tangible disembodied states, including the spiritual, the telegraphic, the psychedelic, the dissociative-induced, artificial intelligences, and alien encounters. The exhibition includes works by Jeanine Brito, Joshua Hagler, Ho Jae Kim, Rae Klein, Yoora Lee, Laurens Legiers, Tali Lennox, Jorge Peris, Mosie Romney, Nicola Samori, Krista-Louise Smith, and Nadia Waheed.
DISEMBODIED is on view through March 9 @ Nicodim Gallery 15 Greene Street New York
Watch The Music Video For Eddie Chacon's New Single "Sundown"
Today, Eddie Chacon presents his new single/video, βSundown,β from his forthcoming record Sundown, out March 31st via Stones Throw. The βSundownβ video, which documents the process of recording the album, was shot at 64 Sound Studios in Northeast LA by Brandon Bloom. Appearing in the video is John Carroll Kirby β who produced, co-wrote, and played keys on Sundown β as well as Logan Hone (flute and saxophones), Elizabeth Lea (trombone), Will Logan (drums), and David Leach (percussion). Following a string of previously shared singles β βHoly Hell,β βStep By Stepβ and βComes And Goesβ β βSundownβ is a song about βbeing humbled by how little time we have on this earth.β Only now, Chacon says, at his age (59) does he have the life experience and quiet confidence to sing about such a subject.
Giorgio Armani for Just One Eye Launch in Los Angeles
A dedicated pop-in has been installed at the boutique featuring a curated assortment of menβs and womenβs ready-to-wear and accessories from the Giorgio Armani Spring/Summer 2023 collection. Since opening in 2012, Just One Eye has become a leader in global specialty retail thanks to the pioneering vision of founder, Paola Russo, who blurs the lines between fashion, art, design and wellness in a multi-sensory environment that balances creativity with commerce. The launch of Giorgio Armani for Just One Eye was celebrated with a private cocktail hosted by the brand and Paola Russo.
Autre Magazine and Sow & Tailor Gallery Hosts A Frieze Week Wrap Party At Holloway House In West Hollywood
Sow & Tailor gallery invited Autre Magazine to close out art week in Los Angeles at the new intimate Holloway House by Soho House in West Hollywood surrounded by a brilliant curation of works by some of our favorite Los Angles-based artists like Greg Ito and Sayre Gomez. Sounds were provided by DJs Dana Boulos, Cherry and Saturn. photographs by Oliver Kupper
Sarah Ellison Studio Releases The Float Sofa At The Iconic Stahl House In Partnership With Design Within Reach
Inspired by the conversation pits of the 1970s, Australian designer Sarah Ellisonβs FLOAT sofaβavailable in a rich Pantone brown called Piccolo or a bouclΓ© fabricβwas fΓͺted high above Sunset Strip at the iconic Stahl House. Speaking to Ellison at the famous Case Study House #22, she remarked on how wonderful the clash was between her obsession with 70s aesthetics and mid-century mod. A low-slung multi-seater that is modularly configurable, the sofa is an instant classic. photographs by Adrian Gaut
Portrait of a Musicianβ featuring Julian Casablancas by Hedi Slimane
photographs by Hedi Slimane at the Chateau Marmont
Read An Interview of Sow and Tailor's Karen Galloway →
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Autre Hosts The Fourth Annual Frieze LA Week Kickoff With Jeffrey Deitch Gallery at Desert 5 Spot in Hollywood
Autre Magazine and Jeffrey Deitch host their annual Frieze Week kickoff to celebrate one of the busiest cultural weeks in Los Angeles. Guests sipped on Grey Goose vodka coladas and enjoyed a slideshow by artist Nadia Lee Cohen high on the rooftop of western themed bar Desert 5 Spot within the Tommie Hotel in Hollywood. photographs by Oliver Kupper
Bal(enciag)at by Hakan Solak and Osman Γzel
photography by Osman Γzel
styling by Hakan Solak
set design by Stefanie Grau
hair by Masayuki Yuasa
make-up by Gianluca Venerdini
using Haebmau Atelier, Pat McGrath and Byredo
production by Laura Howes
light assistance by Riccardo Contrino
styling assistance by Aleix LlussΓ LΓ²pez
hair assistance by Lee Hyangsoon
set assistance by Catherine Lemeshynska
casting by Eli Xavier Casting
modeling by Sarah G. @ TIAD, Lici, Albena @ Indeed and Tarek
special thanks to Hayley Foo and the Balenciaga Team
Backstage with Olivier MohriΕge by Lukas Goldschmidt
photography by Lukas Goldschmidt
styling by Olivier Mohringe
hair by Tina Pachta
makeup by Janette Peters and Darja Crainiucenco
set design by Nina Oswald
styling assistance by Vlada Kitaeva
hair assistance by Caroline Raick
modeling by Sandra @ MIHA Managament, Nastya @ Viva Models, Ana @ IZAIO Management, Celine and Zen @ A Management
Every Single Look For Celine's Homme Winter 2023 Runway Presentation
Hedi Slimane delves into todayβs youthβs rediscovery of the 2000βs electro clash and electronic rock sounds and scenes, a movement appearing in major cities like Paris, London and New York. He pays tribute to New Yorkβs cult proto-punk band Suicide formed in 1977 by Alan Vega and Martin Rev, a band who in 2023 still intrigues and inspires the emerging music scenes. Key to the collection, the tight black leather Celine pants, are paired in βdouble leatherβ with biker and racer jackets customized with studs or rhinestones. The Celine coats are worn oversized and are cut out of cashmere or english tweeds recreated on a traditional loom. The Celine suits are slightly raised, worn with cropped flared trousers. The embroideries are handmade in the Parisian couture ateliers. The giant leopard and tiger printed coats are made from shearling cashmere. The models wear βnightclubbingβ perfume, part of the Celine haute parfumerie collection. The pieces that pay tribute to Le Palace iconic years are limited edition.