Explores – Beautifaire

5 Jun

Bodywork: This shoot explores the bond between man and

There is a certain poetry in decaying machinery. Rusted steel panels, cracked enamel paint and abandoned engines, once symbols of reinvention, are now remnants of a world that has been left behind. In a new shoot titled Pace Notes, that cycle is reimagined, drawing from the remains of derelict rally cars to uncover something human beneath the ruins. Shot and creative directed by photographer Maxime Ballesteros, with Angel Velluto on board as co-creative director, Pace Notes is inspired by the scattered relics of farm and motor machinery left to rust in remote landscapes. The shoot explores how nature reclaims and softens the line between the mechanical and the organic. Resembling a car crash, the models, all ballet dancers, are body painted by...

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16 Nov

This book explores what it’s wish to navigate beauty

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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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19 May

This exhibition explores evolving beauty ideals – and the

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This exhibition explores evolving beauty ideals – and the

The Cult of Beauty exhibition on the Wellcome Collection takes an in-depth have a look at the wonder industry and our ever-changing understanding of what it means to be beautiful What does it mean to be beautiful? Throughout history, this difficult query has been always challenged. Across different cultures and times, ideas of beauty have differed and today with the prominence of social media in our culture the cycles of beauty trends have never been so fast. Opening this week on the Wellcome Collection in London, The Cult of Beauty is the last word investigation into this concept. Curated by Janice Li, the show investigates how morality, status, health, age, race and gender...

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9 May

Dipetsa’s second collection explores the sexuality of the maternal

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Dipetsa’s second collection explores the sexuality of the maternal

The Water Broke is the second chapter of Dimitra Petsa’s WETNESS project What goes through your mind while you see a pregnant body. What associations, thoughts, feelings, emotions are conjured up for you in that moment? Are they ones of purity? Or sexualisation? The Virgin Mary or the MILF category of Pornhub? That is the query designer Dimitra Petsa is exploring along with her latest collection, The Water Broke, the second chapter in her Wetness project which takes as its themes bodily fluids, femininity, maternity, and the malleability of the feminine form. “The feminine body continually changes,” says Petsa. “Its physical form may be very fluid, depending on where you might be in your...

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