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A couple of years ago, stylist Valeria Chrampani was on set with a make-up artist from the US once they began talking about Chrampani’s collection of Cabbage Patch Kids. “The make-up artist told me that she was buying CPK dolls and objects for her kids and that she had also passed her own collection on to them,” says Chrampani. “A couple of months later, she asked for my address and I received an enormous box with CPK clothes and design patterns. I used to be really touched by that.”
Chrampani has been collecting Cabbage Patch Kids and their memorabilia since she was a toddler. The primary doll she got, her favourite, is known as “Lachanou” meaning little cabbage in Greek. Chrampani was...
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Disquieting, transgressive and sometimes darkly comic, the Recent York artist’s photographs urged viewers to see the naked form in a recent light
When you’re prone to have encountered the enduring images created by seminal Recent York photographers Robert Mapplethorpe and Peter Hujar throughout the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties, chances are you'll be less accustomed to the work of their contemporary Jimmy DeSana. Disquieting, transgressive and sometimes darkly comic, DeSana’s idiosyncratic photographs unite a constellation of avant-garde elements from punk and sadomasochism to camp, club culture, and performance art.
In a lot of his most arresting images, the human body is abstracted and objectified, stripped not only of garments but of subjectivity. We’re invited to...
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