A psychedelic gang of boys, bears and bravehearts stomping toward us against a thumping KrossBow soundtrack. Nick Knight’s fashion film featuring Simon Foxton’s visual mash-up of Belgian menswear master Walter Van Beirendonck’s enviable archives is an explosive Technicolor experience.
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Author Archives: White Rabbit
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Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair
For 42 years, Gilbert & George have been reflections of each other, identical twins alike in being different: not from each other but from the rest of the world, which is a dark and violent place filled with ambiguous pageantry. The Jack Freak Pictures shows their ominous kaleidoscopic world, a chaotic pulse of medals, flags [...]
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Size Matters
Imagine yourself entering a dark space, directed towards a quietly swishing revolving door. There are signs everywhere warning you’re about to enter a “pressurized area” so if you’re pregnant, have breathing problems, or some curious disease: GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE, YOU’RE GONNA DIE. What do you think is going to happen. Anish Kapoor’s [...]
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Paula
With the birth of my children I realized I developed a new set of feelings. There was that complete and unconditional love, not wanting anything in return. There was the fear something could happen to them which made me more vulnerable then I ever felt before. And there was astonishment about the simple fact that [...]
Jan
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Prayer of Shadow Protection
Most Dutch bridges, whether fixed or movable, are built by civil engineers without any input from architects resulting in “functional constructions devoid of any poetry whatsoever.” Therefore it is really nice that an architect was deemed necessary for this relatively small drawbridge for the Amstel-Drecht canal in South Holland. NIO Architects, one of the finalists [...]
Dec
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Father & Daughter
A bittersweet short movie, set in the landscape of the Netherlands with its wide skies and tall poplar trees, tells the story of a young girl whose father departs in a small boat and disappears. The girl returns again and again to the place he left her to peer out to the sea to search [...]
Nov
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Dreamland
One of the most impressive exhibitions I saw during my recent trip to Paris was the Dreamland exhibition at the Centre Pompidou and the installation that really hit me was Malachi Farrell’s shocking “Nothing Stops a New Yorker”, a rich mix of menace and absurdity, borrowing from Arte Povera, Dada, Jean Tinguely and sound art. [...]
Oct
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Like Everyday
Ghadirian’s “Like Everyday Series” was created from the plethora of domestic gifts she received after her wedding to fellow photographer, Peyman Hooshmandzadeh. Each of the photographs depicts a figure draped in patterned fabric in place of the typical Iranian chador. However, instead of a face, each figure has a common household item such as an [...]
Sep
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Nearly reachable
“ Drawing a labyrinth with salt is like following a trace of my memory. Memories seem to change and vanish as time goes by. However, what I seek is the way in which I can touch a precious moment in my memories that cannot be attained through pictures or writings. I always silently follow the [...]
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Operation Supermarket
“Imagine the Iranian art couple Farhad Moshiri and Shirin Aliabadi stepping out of an air plane into the surprisingly WiFi-enabled aisle of Tehran international airport. Struggling to digest the single serving of in-flight chicken salad, they follow the signs to the baggage claim. Because of the zero tolerance drug/alcohol policy of their country, there is [...]