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6 May

Watch this film concerning the uncomfortable sensuality of hair

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Beauty, Featured
The fascinating dichotomy of hair is how it may be equally alluring and gross depending on where and whether it is attached to the body. While the hair on our heads is mostly accepted as a beautiful feature, once it migrates down the body or becomes unattached from it completely – discovered in food, stuck within the drain –  what was once sensual can quickly turn into something that agitates and brings discomfort for many individuals. In Chaetophobia, hair stylist Claire Moore’s latest film with director Benjamin Madgwick which takes the word for the fear of hair as its title, hair is all over the place. Creeping up from beneath trousers, opened up across skin, in mouths, within the soap dish and...
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28 Mar

Carlota Guerrero desires to make you’re feeling uncomfortable

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Beauty, Featured
Known for her work with Solange, Rosalía and Arca, the artist’s first-ever solo show captures the complexity and discomfort of life in a patriarchal society Carlota Guerrero is a photographer from Barcelona perhaps best known for her photographs of musicians; she’s worked with Solange, Rosalía, and Arca, amongst others. Her photos have the immediate impression of softness; low contrast images of girls with velvety skin and delicate eyes, dancing, braiding one another’s hair. It’s natural that her first solo show is at Sainte Anne, a women-run gallery in Paris. The exhibition, titled Registro 6: Manglar, traces the story of eight women as they orchestrate a mystical, imagined ritual “towards the centre of the earth”....
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31 Dec

Sasha Gordon’s self-portraits are designed to make you uncomfortable

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In her latest exhibition at Hands of Others, currently showing at Jeffrey Deitch in Recent York, Sasha Gordon uses absurdist self-portraiture to focus on the conflicting issues in her personal life. Nevertheless, as an alternative of allowing her audience to sympathise with the stark emotions in her paintings, Gordon’s work is supposed to perturb us; there's a way of unnerving voyeurism when viewing these images as if we're seeing something we should always not.  “I’ve all the time felt really uncomfortable [in my body],” the Brooklyn-based artist tells Dazed. “I need the viewer to feel the identical discomfort of being on this body that’s being critiqued and checked out on a regular basis. I used to be all the time very...
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