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Joe Brainard (American, 1942–1994), Cat and Cone, 1976. Cut and pasted printed and painted papers, and gouache on paper.

crystallizations

Dancers from the Frankfurt Ballet in Pleats designed by Issey Miyake, 1991. Scan from Issey Miyake: Making Things.

Beatrice Modisett, detail of “Every Ninth Wave II,” 2018

Graciela Iturbide, Magnolia, Juchitán, Oaxaca, México, 1986

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Sam Gilliam, UNTITLED, 1968

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Mimesis by Kim Kei

Kim Kei evokes the body without depicting the figure as a form. The body is implied by mimicking the skin’s surface and the gesture of the form depicted. Our skin contains the interior and is the point of contact with everything outside ourselves specifically one another. Kei creates sculpted, simulated skins that are inked and pressed to paper leaving a precise impression. The paper captures the cracks and wrinkles, the body’s acquired marks though time, injury, repair, and illness. Encompassing spaces between vulnerability, invasiveness and tenderness, the unnameable forms unfurl, contort, meet, and touch seemingly of their own vitality. The opportunity for empathy in looking closely and the intimacy being seen transmutes shame into a resilient, forceful affirmation. Creases strike through the form revealing what we attempt to keep hidden bringing these unruly parts of ourselves fully to the surface communicating a body in motion.

you can also find me @mary_bu__

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zora sicher

http://www.zorasicher.com/

samuris

Simen Johan

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‘Biopiracy’ - Iris van Herpen F/W 2014 (2014)

“In the recent past, patents on our genes have been purchased. Are we still the sole proprietor of our bodies? From this question arises a sense of arrested freedom in one’s most intimate, solitary state. Models float in the air, embryonic, seemingly weightless and in a meditative suspended animation”