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This Week
💦 a faux Hellenic garage
💦 fights, light stampedes, and nervous drinking
💦 the cutest custom dog house
Events
🧊 29 Nov | 6:30-8pm | In the Chair, Sarah Lucas x Philippa Perry (talk), Tate Britain [Pimlico]
🧊 30 Nov | 6-8pm | things fall apart; the centre cannot hold (group show featuring Elli Antoniou, Ali Glover, Richard Dean Hughes) curated by Kollectiv Collective, Tabula Rasa [Old Street]
🧊 30 Nov | 6.30pm| Reading event in conjunction with RM exhibition, with Andrew Durbin, Charlie Fox, Abondance Mantada and Asa Seresin, Auto Italia [Cambridge Heath]
🧊 30 Nov | 6-8pm | Vilte Fuller: Corporate Horrors, Brooke Bennington [Goodge Street]
🧊 30 Nov | 6-8pm | Robert Mapplethorpe: Subject, Object, Image, Alison Jacques [Green Park]
🧊 1-10 Dec | 11-7pm daily | Xmas Concept Store, 9 Club Row [Shoreditch High Street]
🧊 1 Dec | 6-8pm | Robert Sandler: Novelty Automation, a. SQUIRE [Holborn]
🧊 1 Dec | Inez Valentine, Waste Store [Hoxton]
🧊1 Dec | Mark Burch: Chasing Rabbits, Shipton [Hackney Wick]
🧊 1 Dec | 6-9pm | This be the verse (curated by Glen Pudvine], Xxijra Hii [Deptford]
🧊 1 Dec | Arthur Poujois: us at the end of the world, Sarabande Foundation [White Hart Lane] 🚨new space alert 🚨
🧊 1 Dec | 6-8pm | Pictures of Us, group show curated by Lewis Dalton Gilbert, Gathering [Piccadilly Circus]
🧊 2 Dec | 7:30pm | Hinako Omori (with special guests), ICA [Charing Cross] | £18.50
Exhibition Review
Anya Gorkova: Are You Seeing Anyone? at South Parade until 13 Jan 2024, info here.
Anya Gorkova vs the medium of photography rang in another round at South Parade last Wednesday night, as the artist – dressed in one of two shirts made in collaboration with hot London womenswear designer Sinéad O’Dwyer – opened their first UK solo show at the gallery’s unique Farringdon space. Snowbaby dream ‘girlfriends’, ‘boyfriends’ and ‘theyfriends’ lined the gallery walls adorned in synthetic sugar, heart stickers and crystal rhinestones. Pink gel pens were available to fill out an intimate dating questionnaire; the mood for spontaneous love and the shedding of personal data abounded. Sweet and wry, the works on view push at the boundaries of expanded photography. Gorkova’s approach includes appropriating and shredding prints from the darkroom where they work, cementing these fragments in epoxy and layering rhinestones, mirror tiles, white sand and stickers in a hot, PVA glued exploration of aesthetic consumerism as it is most widely felt today: via the photographic medium. Image junkies that we are, we can’t get enough of Gorkova’s work and have thought every day since of the hot pink, diamanté dressed walls of South Parade’s iconic loo where the artist has installed a white & pink Sony Ericsson Walkman, dispersing y2k tracks into the ether for anyone brave enough to revisit – and perhaps romanticise – a simpler, sexier time.
Hot Links
✉️ “I’m like, ‘How can we get more hate mail?’” – Amy Francombe investigates the all publicity is good publicity adage for Vogue. Examining brands who use their online hate as a marketing tool to drive sales, Amy asks: did we invent an innovative new marketing technique, or did we just descend to a new circle of the over-consumption hellscape? Feedback welcome x
🤼 “stilettos and Sauvignon Blanc” – For the New Yorker, Doreen St. Félix and Sinna Nasseri report from the reliably chaotic BravoCon at Caesar’s Forum in Las Vegas, a weekend that sees thousands of Real Housewives stans descend to engage in a programme brimming with events such as ‘Pat the Puss with Erika Jayne’. We’re gutted to have missed it.
🍕 “little pizza animations float around her, implicating herself and her own image” – Orit Gat explores the legacy of post-internet art in Frieze, the currency of ‘cool’, the textures of a ‘scene’ and why the slippery, highly specific and very social nature of post-internet art is why we should take it seriously x
🧛 “the way that brands deal with their artist collaborations is vampiric” – i-D speak to Supriya Lele, Parinaz Mogadassi and Donald Ryan about their intertwined creative ventures: Supriya’s label, TRAMPS and Qrystal Partners. Mogadassi says: ‘Donny and I came from working in galleries and working within structures where there was a clearly defined hierarchy. It just didn’t make sense — it didn’t feel like a productive or honest way of working…’, preach it !!
💲 “Buy something unimpeachably strange, bizarre, and seasonal” – we are obsessed with living icon Julia Fox’s Christmas gift guide for ssense, which includes a shopping emergency flow chart and great fonts. For more festive photography head straight to this very Nadia Lee Cohen coded ‘It's Giving Winter’ interview-shoot x
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On our xmas list is the cutest of cute custom dog houses! designed by art world-fave interior design studio Charlap Hyman & Herrero. It’s… majestic. Info here x
Parting Shot
Over the weekend, we noticed that British Vogue misattributed actor Jacob Elordi’s Bottega cassette man bag as a Chanel. As you can imagine, Fashionistas were losing their minds in the comments, but we say give the poor social media intern a break… Fashion maven Cozette McCreery (@cozettemc), on the other hand, alleges the blunder may have actually been a ‘conscious mistake for the algorithm’ (see Amy Francombe’s article above!!!). Either way, this is a seismic glitch in the matrix and we’re calling for Anna Wintour to deliver an iphone notes style apology. To be followed by a ‘conscious mistakes made on the grid’ 2024 microtrend x