VISO Project, the design store and gallery that opened a physical space in Dumbo last month, has welcomed artist Silvia Prada to its partitions for the installation of ‘Obsessions,’ a solo exhibition of Prada’s personal archives featuring additional works by Coco Capitán. 

“I desired to put together a show with a whole lot of archives of things I actually have that built my lexicon as a queer female artist,” Prada says of the exhibition. “All of the culture that I actually have consumed since I used to be a teen – what made me gay.”

The exhibition features vintage ad campaigns from Calvin Klein and Versace, photos of Madonna, tear outs from the ’70s gay men’s clothing catalog ‘Ah Men,’ 12 pencil portraits Prada did of Princess Diana, a porcelain sculpture in the form of the Calvin Klein ‘Obsession’ scent soap and more.

Also on display is a big photograph by Capitán, featuring a contemporary version of the kind of baseball hats Princess Diana liked to wear within the ’80s and a sweatshirt emblazoned with the phrase “I don’t eat breakfast.”

“My friend Coco was visiting me a couple of months ago and we were talking about what’s attractive for us as queer individuals by way of partners. And we were talking in regards to the soft butchness, about Lady Diana, about fashion too,” says Prada, who will soon release a book about Diana.  “Nothing was really queer for me within the moment, but she was asked once what she makes for her husband for breakfast and he or she was like ‘I don’t eat breakfast.’ And that was pretty rebellious, and that’s how she connected with the gay audience on the time.”

“Obsessions, Silvia Prada featuring Coco Capitán” will run at VISO Project through July 16.