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28 Apr

Jewel Yang’s photos turn the female body into a

Jewel Yang’s photos turn the female body into a
Jewel Yang, Genesis VanishingGallery / 10 images Jewel Yang experienced a sacred moment while painting a friend’s pregnant stomach. Unlike her usual work, doing make-up for Yueqi Qi and Oscar Ouyang runway shows or Dazed cover shoots, Yang felt the tension: “Her belly was hard, resistant and elastic, making it very easy to paint,” the 28-year-old make-up artist and Dazed 100 alumni says. “I tried to be very careful with my brush strokes.” A shy, sleeping angel was etched onto the smoothly domed belly, divine iconography unfurling with new life on a human body.  Religious symbols, and the weight that they carry, had been tugging at Yang’s interest for a while. “I once had someone unfollow me because I wore a skirt with...
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27 Jan

The exhibition shining a spotlight on the female form

The exhibition shining a spotlight on the female form
British curator Bryony Stone’s brand new exhibition all in: bodied is a love letter to the female-identifying body in motion. Stone set up her platform ‘all in:’ in 2017, and has already curated two successful exhibitions on mental health and around the notion of progress. However, after her sister was diagnosed with breast cancer, resulting in a mastectomy, Stone was left thinking about people's relationships with their bodies, most notably women's. “The operation limited her ability to move her body in the way that she was used to, and she had to learn how to move through the world with a new kind of body,” Stone says. Inspired by people’s perceptions of the bodies they exist in, Stone is working with...
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