Body – Beautifaire

16 Nov

This book explores what it’s wish to navigate beauty

“I'm in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to 2 men, my friends, discuss whether my life is price living.” So begins Easy Beauty, the debut book and genre-bending memoir from philosophy professor and Pulitzer Prize-finalist author Chloé Cooper Jones. It’s not the primary time her body – its autonomy and inherent value – has been discussed in front of her. Not the primary time it’s been discussed as if separate from her, the person sat right there, listening as friends, colleagues or strangers evaluate her existence, dismissing her perspective within the name of “objectivity”. It also won’t be the last. Weaving together aesthetic philosophy, art history, travel writing and private narrative, Easy Beauty is a confronting and eye-opening exploration of beauty from...

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5 Oct

This photo book contrasts the human body with ‘hyper-natural’

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This photo book contrasts the human body with ‘hyper-natural’

Collaboration sits at the guts of the creative world. When artists bring together their talent, a special alchemy can occur. This was the case for make-up artist Thomas de Kluyver and photographer Zoë Ghertner’s recent book, already past and already again there. Created meticulously over the course of three years, the book presents a free-flowing series of images that explore the human body inside each the natural and ‘hyper-natural’ worlds. After first meeting on the set of a shoot nine years ago, the 2 creatives bonded over their shared artistic understanding and have since built up a definite language which they dropped at already past and already again there. “Zoë and I even have something quite symbiotic after we work together,...

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27 Sep

Identity is a latest exhibition exploring the realities of

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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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20 Sep

Lifting the lid on essentially the most extreme body

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Lifting the lid on essentially the most extreme body

For those without experience or knowledge of body modification, the mere mention of the term could well ignite a sense of fear or dread. Yet in its simplest terms, body modification literally just means altering one’s outward appearance – so whether you wear studs in your ears or not, the term spans the whole lot from the universal procedures of tattooing and ear piercings, through to a variety of much more more extreme, esoteric procedures, for which the resulting aesthetic is commonly considered to be outside of the socially constructed, standardised ‘norms’ of beauty (by narrow-minded folk). For some, body modification is solely a tool through which to disrupt their appearance, or a vehicle through which to face out, while for...

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