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29 Sep

Motherland: This exhibition is a playful celebration of pubic

Motherland: This exhibition is a playful celebration of pubic
At the guts of Motherland, a recent exhibition in Paris which opened last night, is a playful and celebratory approach to the topic of pubic hair – women’s, particularly – that could be very much lacking in most cultural discussion. Across a series of images, models’ pubes are braided, dyed, bedazzled and styled. There’s cotton candy-coloured pubes tied into twin ponytails, pubes fashioned into flames, a rhinestone Marie from The Aristocats. They're daring images, but all the time fun, and done with a way of humour that brings the ladies in on the joke, slightly than making them the butt of it, as is so often the case with a subject still treated with discomfort, if not outright disgust, by...
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27 Sep

Identity is a latest exhibition exploring the realities of

Identity is a latest exhibition exploring the realities of
Affecting one in 100 people, body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a condition where an individual spends an unusual period of time worrying about flaws of their appearance, flaws which go unnoticed by other people. It typically affects young adults and teenagers, and although the condition is far-reaching, those that suffer will often draw back from speaking about it publicly on account of a fear they can be shamed as self-obsessive or vain. Identity is a latest exhibition that goals to challenge this stigma and begin an open conversation around it. Examining how our self-perceptions are shaped by experience, society and the media (in addition to its impact on mental health), the show will consider the importance of talking about these anxieties...
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27 Sep

Exploring the intense paths some men go right down

Exploring the intense paths some men go right down
Perhaps it’s because Burger King wasn’t a thing back then, but in Michelangelo’s historical depictions of man, everybody looked as if it would have a very fire bod. In his sculptures and illustrations, a bloke’s pectoral muscles, topped with tweakable nipples, protrude out over a wash-rack torso; their knife-sharp V-lines pointing down towards to their bits. It’s a picture that has, for therefore long, dominated Western culture’s perception of archetypal masculinity and male beauty: the final word, almost unattainable look. And yet some 500 years on, we’re still obsessing over it. Now though, it manifests less within the art world – where frailer frames usually tend to be fetishised – and more on our TV screens every summer, as we tune in...
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