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Shall your fantasy be dismissed by some artificial intelligence?
The exhibition Cartier & Myths in Rome forces us back to the place where fantasy is born – the realm of myth – with a challenging question: will we remain...
How to Peel yourself: the ritual of shedding and becoming
In Osman Özel’s visual narrative for Lampoon SOAP, the act of cleansing becomes an intimate choreography of transformation – a meditation on identity, purity, and the art of unveiling oneself
Juergen Teller shapes Onassis Ready into a living exhibition: You are invited
Juergen Teller arrives in Athens not in a white cube: You are invited explores intimacy, archival work and new series within the unpolished framework of Onassis Ready, a former factory...
The Bi culture: does bisexuality exist?
From Seventies bisexual activism to the erasure of those living outside straight and homo definitions – Pillion, Euphoria and other movies and TV series explore how visibility can question fixed notions...
Silence is Couture: Renaud Cambuzat turns Chanel Cruise into still cinema
A reflection on light and absence, Renaud Cambuzat’s contribution to Lampoon 32 SOAP investigates the language of stillness through a cinematic eye
Hemp and Phytodepuration: a topic for discussion
Phytoremediation uses plants to absorb contaminants, including heavy metals – a study from Poznań University shows that hemp can reclaim degraded mining soil by increasing the amount of humus
Alex Lawther on “Alien: Earth” – Cult teen sociopaths and the softness of survival
From Black Mirror to The End of the F**ing World and now Alien: Earth, Alex Lawther reflects on fear, AI, and playing care in a militarized future
The scars of industry in Lausitz, Brandenburg: Maximilian Semlinger
Lampoon SOAP: photographer Maximilian Semlinger documenting a post-industrial landscape marked by coal mining
Ash, Water, Plastic: Ritual and Reality Along the Ganges
From the divine descent through Shiva’s hair to the industrial discharge of modern cities, the Ganges tells a story of devotion and ecological crisis – between purification rituals and chemical...
The Politics of Oil: Tanoa Sasraku Reframes Corporate Souvenirs as Violent Symbols
Working with found objects, sculptures, and UV-printed paper works, Tanoa Sasraku maps the destruction of the oil industry across global affairs and the environment
The world’s first regenerative cotton grown under agroforestry
A globally relevant case study: supported by the Armani Group, a pioneering protocol for regenerative cotton grown through agroforestry is moving forward – while the first 1,000 T-shirts reach store...
Bergen, one of Europe’s rainiest cities: an offering to the sea
In Norway’s rain-soaked city, Bergen Assembly 2025 invites audiences to listen to the rain, the sea, and the more-than-human world as active collaborators in the creation of art and meaning
Charlotte Taylor: drawing the balance between fiction and structure
Between the digital and the built, Charlotte Taylor moves through worlds that mirror and inform each other — where light, weight, and narrative define how we inhabit space
Perfection Kills the Person: Inside Hart Lëshkina’s Boy World Effigy II
In the multichannel installation at O–Overgaden, a historic Danish boys’ choir becomes a living metaphor for modern control. Boy World Effigy II by Hart Lëshkina dissects harmony, and the death...
Carly Scott SOAP, automatic purity: a car wash is about your life
The first car wash was born from the belief that purity could be engineered - for Lampoon / SOAP, Carly Scott turns the industrial car wash into a confessional of...
We all want more sex! Independent publishing and emerging fashion
From Butt Magazine to Carne Bollente and Ludovic de Saint Sernin, independent publishing and niche fashion labels transform sex from spectacle into intimacy – shifting from glossy provocation to everyday...
Hemp cultivation’s sustainable assets: neither pesticides or fertilizers required
Sustainable hemp cultivation: with sporadic irrigation and no use of pesticides or fertilizers, hemp takes care of itself
The difference between fashion and style – and the measure of Armani
The Giorgio Armani company: 50 years of activity and operation – style, fashion and measure, pioneering sustainability, message, and Milan’s rough architects
Mircea Cantor and the Aleppo Soap – from destruction to the UNESCO list
The destruction suffered by Aleppo, migrations, bombings, and in the midst of all this Mircea Cantor discovered a humble material: Aleppo Soap, which in 2024 was inscribed on the UNESCO...
Cara Cano: searching for a space where restraint and vitality coexist
From Korea to Paris, it’s easy to disappear into the codes of luxury — Cara Cano found her language, when she started reading more about art and understanding color and...
Anthea Hamilton: Oil makes everything slippery – soap brought the idea back to earth
Anthea Hamilton reflects on the role of tactility in her installations, from quail eggs and bondage rope to plush pumpkins and perfume
Can cinema define itself as a sustainable and inclusive industry?
Inside the film industry’s green awakening: from solar-powered sets and recycled costumes to mentoring programs like Women in Film & TV and the BFI diversity standards
LOVR™, hemp-based leather: Revoltech’s commitment to upcycling hemp residues
Founded by three friends, the German company Revoltech offers sustainable leather alternatives using hemp residues, contributing to a circular economy and winning multiple eco-awards
Hygiene and the fracture of modernist architecture, Ignazio Gardella never designed through purity
Dispensario Antitubbercolare: Ignazio Gardella responded to political and hygienic pressures with calibrated disobedience, embedding spatial misalignments into a structure born of regulation
Dafni Krazoudi: Guilty for Lampoon SOAP
The body stands as both witness and terrain: a shoot by Dafni Krazoudi and Spyros Rennt, echoing the performance GUILTY at OHM with MOLT in Berlin, tracing an archaeology of...
100% female Hemp plants – the future is here
One of the most versatile and sustainable plant, hemp could explore mass production entry with NWG’s AMPLIFY hybrid trait fostering hemp populations with up to 100% female plants
Lampoon: a bar of soap cut into squares for Tiffany & Co.
Lauren Bamford transforms Tiffany’s high jewelry into works of contemporary still life – coffee stains, soap cuts, and scuffed textures surround gold and diamonds
Hemp Clothing Australia – Hemp clothing garments may last longer than any other materials
The medicinal properties of cannabis sativa – ‘hemp’ – have been overshadowed with marijuana. The possibilities of growing it are yet to be uncovered, due to legislation issues
Jungmaven – Why hemp clothing is more expensive than other fabrics on the market
Jungmaven is one of the first 100% hemp brands in Los Angeles: «We only need to grow about 50 acres of hemp» - says Robert Jungmann
Alex Dobé: what’s raw and unposed? We have to be pickier and more precise
Photographer Alex Dobé’ captures what’s raw and unposed – in Paris, he stands out: There are a lot of avant-garde brands, but I’m not sure anyone is reshaping fashion on...
The meaning of lingerie in shaping female identity
From tights and bras to swimsuits and closets: lingerie as a lens to understand female identity, memory, whiteness, and the rituals passed down through generations. A performance by Charlotte Fourneuf-Niel
Maurizio Cattelan: Art is not a detergent. It doesn’t clean, it stains
An interview with Maurizio Cattelan: art shouldn’t wash anything away. I don’t want people leaving reassured or clutching a moral. If something sticks, let it be friction
Inside Mater, the Peruvian center blending ancestral knowledge and science
In Peru’s Sacred Valley, Mater studies native species and climate data to preserve ancestral agricultural knowledge. Photographer Gaia Anselmi Tamburini translates this research into a visual record
Hemp Stories: Steve Marais captures sustainable natural fibers
It's all about hemp: hemp garments and an entire hemp collection: Made in Italy, aiming to present a new ‘Made and Sourced in Italy’ sustainable project
Photographer Naguel Rivero transforms fashion imagery into a meditation on form
A cinematic approach, documentary and fiction – what emerges from Naguel Rivero's photography is not fashion, but choreography: a sequence of gestures that blur the line between movement and constraint
Lara Giliberto – between Protestantism and Catholicism
Photographer Lara Giliberto for Lampoon SOAP: tension between redemption and fall – on faith, guilt, and the hidden landscapes of the human soul
Exploring Hemp in Design: Yasmin Bawa abandons concrete for hempcrate
«When I abandoned concrete, I managed to find something that is the opposite: it is breathable, permeable, not toxic». Yasmin Bawa’s production from concrete to hempcrate
Producing paper from hemp – the case of Hahnemühle using ancestry old process
Since its foundation, the company has been using spring water for the milling of their paper. Producing from hemp fiber doesn’t require bleaching or chloride
Clean and unclean, Sofia Alazraki
In her still lifes for Lampoon SOAP, Sofia Alazraki reflects on the dialectic of purity and decay — where discipline meets residue, and the language of the everyday becomes an...
Amit Berman turns pain into softness
I work in a messy, dirty way. Beneath the roughness of grainy canvas and cadmium underpainting, Amit Berman stages male nudity as a zone of negotiation – trauma and tenderness,...
Natural binders: magnesium and potato starch make hemp products fully circular
Dutch designer and professor Jack Brandsma explains how the combination of hemp, water and natural binders allow the creation of a robust cement-like material
Why can’t we recycle car parts? Because they’re designed not to be
The automotive industry leaves behind a global trail of damage: a residual mix of plastic, foam, glass fibres, and micro-tissues is mostly landfilled. Not easy to clean this up
Soap up – the secret ritual of corporate men
Through cross-dressing and cleansing, the men envisioned by photographer Alvarez Garcia and stylist Andrea Colace explore femininity without renouncing masculinity
François Berthoud: mistakes are one of the things digital tools can’t offer
Blending traditional tools and contemporary technology, artist illustrator François Berthoud carves linoleum plates by hand, uses vegetable-based ink and plays with net distortions, celebrating process over product
Hermès Manufactory Riom: two and a half days to craft a Birkin
When luxury deserves respect: 250 new jobs in a French province, education and culture in a manufacturing district, handmade saddle stitching
How digital craftsmanship is redesigning the textile supply chain
From Amsterdam, BYBORRE has established a new model of digital manufacturing that blends transparency, precision, and responsibility — proving that technology can help fashion produce less, but better.
