Tag: Lampoon issue 25
Isabelle Wenzel, art and clay: a legacy of feminist and ecological practices
Transforming blocks of dry clay into performative terrain: physical improvisation, self-timer photography, and material friction shape Isabelle Wenzel’s creative process
Daniel Roché: sex work and political performance
How the realities of sex work, political performance, digital self-surveillance and aesthetic anxiety expose the contradictions at the heart of contemporary identity
The trend of the Metaverse: on the proximity of an ethereally fabricated cosmos
Trend Forecaster Lisa White unravels how the Metaverse is about «creating entire universes of products and services» in the eternal quest for tribe belonging
Bygone days; a collection of Cecil Beaton Venice images revised by Louis Vuitton
Chronicles of Cecil Beaton encounters, costume balls, social events leaving behind the diary and photographic records of his trips
Transparency means ‘to go beyond’ and ‘to appear’. Formafantasma in dialogue with Joseph Grima
«We recognie design processes to have an effect and determination, a form of transparency. I am a globalist when it comes to ideas» – Joseph Grima in conversation with Formafantasma
Lampoon/ Polo Ralph Lauren. The bourgeois codes that we dismantled, and that we now want back
Ralph Lauren was not the first to associate this shirt with the name of the sport, but he changed its semantics. In English, Ralph Lauren elevated the ‘Polo' shirt from...
Architecture on transparency glass windows: every hatred would be destroyed
'The surface of the Earth would be completely different if brick architecture were replaced everywhere with glass’. States Bruno Taut the realities of our utopian impulse to see through buildings
Acceptance, intrusion, exposure, vulnerability. Javier Ruiz’s experiment
«Thirty individuals interact with an environment they have never been in before, finding themselves in a new situation where it is easy to feel vulnerable» – photographer Javier Ruiz for...
Showcasing savoir-faire and craftsmanship, Louis Vuitton perpetuates the traditions of its founder
Up to 300 people working in a single workshop; divided into two areas to encourage a sense of community and the transmission of skills from generation to generation
‘Sweet voyeur’ is an incubator of love – two people making sex and existence like a pulse
From their home-studio in Milan, photographers Armando Bruno and Mauro Maglione explore voyeurism and the ‘invasiveness’ of the camera
Embracing technology: the only way to keep hand weaving with the new generation
From Italy to India to Wales. How the culture of hand weaving is undergoing just enough modernization to keep it alive, but not enough to kill the traditional craft completely
Alex Black – a catalog of unearned Montreal’s nooks, crannies and talents
A duplication of imagery and scale acts as a means of equating the objects and the subjects. A collection of Montreal's creativity overlooked by the international fashion industry – Alex...
Lampoon, the Transparency issue – Rasmus Weng Karlsen: we are humans, not numbers
«Transparent can also be just another way of saying one's true self, displaying all those things that are usually hidden behind the two-way mirror of one's life» – Rasmus Weng...
NFTs – Four art market experts discuss the advantages and potential risks of blockchain
In the limelight after the multi-million auction of Beeple’s The first 5,000 days. Art and tech, a compendium of the recent turmoil in the art market and the global excitement...
Lampoon, Pascale Arnaud. Diversity representation and deconstruction of genders
Breaking the barriers between genders' representations to stir up trouble shows that femininity and masculinity are exchangeable and shareable
Intimacy, liquidity, and clarity. Roberto Patella’s recipe
Roberto Patella's work echoes the socially critical message of the book 'Generation Me', namely why today's youth are more confident, assertive, entitled, and unhappier than ever before
Connecting the circle of womanhood with bags
Styphalia is a marshy lake in Greece. It is situated on a plateau at the southern foot of Mount Cyllene. Here, Ria Mort recreates an ancestral circle
We Are History: ‘We’re here together, changing, mutating, limbo-ing, twisting, turning into weather’
We Are History, a group show curated by Ekow Eshun offers an expansion of the visual framework surrounding climate change — from historical and postcolonial to lyrical and poetic
Fantasy, myth, dream, aspiration, illusion. Menelik Puryear shuffles some visionary assets
A silent performance, a theatrical act without a script, a dreamscape of bodies floating on the stage of life. Menelik Puryear and the dream as satisfaction of unconscious desire
Queer intimacy and female nudity, a defiant body of work by artist Jenna Gribbon
«The idea is to make the viewer conscious of the fact that they are consuming an image of a body which belongs to a person – they are no longer...
Louis de Roffignac: Objects on photosensitive paper
To explore transparency, Louis de Roffignac opted for neutral backgrounds and played around with colored gelatins. The layering of colors allows for variations of the different shades of transparency
Petros Efstathiadis: from a pathogenic claustrophobic state to outdoor life with no restrictions
etros Efstathiadis for Lampoon Transaprency: «Electricity, telecommunications, natural forces, love, and war – they change the world, they create social classes and they push people to success or failure»
Can the monster speak? – Dr. Noémi Michel on the politics of voice alternative economies of attention
Monster derives from the Latin monstrare, to demonstrate. Dr. Michel’s methodology explores this notion of bringing forward shared realities of others and being transparent
Changing Markets – deft marketing tricks mask the truth on synthetic fibers
Extracted, refined into petrochemicals, and processed into plastic. Fossil fuels are spun into synthetic fibers– over seventy percent of all fiber production
Flowers, snails, and sea stars. Ruggiero Cafagna playing with some hermaphrodite things
A mix of portraits, documentary, and fashion developed on humanist realism expressed in a raw aesthetic, showing the sensibilities, fragilities, sensuality, and positive feelings
«The idea of transparency can be ideological and political» David Spriggs talks with Regine Schumann
Visual artists David Spriggs and Regine Schumann discuss the role of transparency, both in its physicality and concept: fFrom material, to object, to luminance constraints
Low wages, no safety – Nazma Akter founder of Awaj Foundation on how Bangladesh’s garment factory workers live and work
Former child worker and labor leader Nazma Akter delves into the vulnerability and injustices faced by Bangladesh’s garment factory workers
Jin Jia Ji: The cracks in the rock
«I want to show the alienated but intimate relationship between human beings and nature, and the tenacious vitality shown by the combination of them» – Jin Jia Ji for Lampoon
