August 2024
Brazilian artist and performer Aun Helden desires to tear down the constructs and constrictions around our bodies and begin again. Their work moves towards an understanding of gender and sex that’s free from cis-heteronormative patriarchal definitions. Un-gendering and un-sexing themself of their online artwork, they're rebuilding themself fluidly with seeming full creative autonomy over their appearance. Inspired partly by their mother, and in lieu of a father figure, they've repoistioned themselves as a maternal figure presiding over their very own body. Fertile imagery abounds of their work; glossy black eggs, vulvic prosthetics, phallic facial appendages à la H.R. Geiger, and large, galactic, empty black eyes.
With the rise of the far-right and the election of president Bolsonaro in Brazil, the climate in Brazil for...
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Pimples Studios | Fall Winter 2024/2025 by Jonny Johansson | Full Fashion Show in High Definition. (Widescreen - Exclusive Video/1080p - PFW/Paris Fashion Week) #Acnestudios #FW24 #PFW #FFLoved
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We reside in an age of polarization as identity continues to dominate modern-day politics. Nonetheless, such extremism will not be limited to politics, beauty trends too are divisive. Given the prolific rise of the Kardashian Klan and their $1billion beauty business, we have now, lately, witnessed the emergence of the ‘positive’ subcultures, a backlash against the sisters’ surgically-enhanced beauty. While the body positivity preached by these subcultures is a preferable alternative, it also seems somewhat unrealistic on condition that digital marketing experts estimate the common American is exposed to 4,000-10,000 advertisements each day. It is sort of unattainable to flee the sanitised images we're sold. And yet, nowadays the practice of self-love is a social expectation and the celebration of...
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