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Kosuke Tsumura, Final Home, 1994. Nylon parka with dozens of pockets to fill with paper when the weather gets cold, ATOPOS Collection, Athens

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Wrapped Woman - Christo and Jeanne-Claude

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by wolfgang tillmans, london 1993

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#VFILESVAULT | Joe's #2

Few things are as perfectly ‘90s as the second and final issue of Joe McKenna’s eponymous magazine, published in 1998. It features a mix of A-list fashion celebrities (Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Anna Wintour), anemic models, and “real people”. Virtually every relevant photographer of the era contributed, including Mario Sorrenti, Steven Klein, David Sims and Juergen Teller.

See the full issue of Joe’s #2 here, or if you’re not on VFILES yet, sign up at http://vfiles.com/.

Spruce Old Tjikko, 9550 years old. Sweden.

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Installation view of the exhibition Nairy Baghramian: Déformation Professionnelle, 2017. (Photo: Gene Pittman, ©Walker Art Center)

Over the past two decades, Nairy Baghramian (Germany, b. Iran, 1971) has created sculptures, photographic works, and drawings that explore relationships between architecture, everyday objects, and the human body. Her works mark boundaries, transitions, and gaps in the museum, prompting us to consider form and meaning in the context of interior and exterior spaces. Drawing on a multiplicity of references—including dance, theater, design, and fashion—and producing unlikely juxtapositions in material and scale, Baghramian questions and challenges the definition of sculpture.

The exhibition takes its name from a French phrase often translated as “professional distortion” or “job conditioning,” referring to ways that a person’s worldview can be altered by their chosen vocation. The artist uses the exhibition as an opportunity to take apart her own profession and lay bare the sculptor’s method. In fact, the word “deformation” can also be applied to form, pointing to basic actions such as shaping, modeling, or casting. Through her playful yet critical take on the artist survey, Baghramian unpacks and interrogates the conceptual, physical, and social aspects of sculpture-making today.