“It’s shocking how hard you have to work to make it look like you’re not working that hard,” Rae Abunahla, better known by his DJ name Bootycornfed, tells me.
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Some Kind of Good Life: Christopher Sherman’s Afterlives of Shame
On October 14th, I clocked out of my day job and was seized by a want for sensuous experience. I needed to be gripped by art of some kind and brought back to life from the quotidian routines of the office, which left me feeling hard-boiled, bored, and cold.
Undoing the Icon: Denial and De-figuration in “MADONNA”
Late in June, a strange, quiet exhibition opened at 918 Bathurst in Toronto. MADONNA, a group show running from June 24th to July 13th, brings together ten artists working across a range of disciplines and materials.
Samantha Sutcliffe’s Haunted America
In her latest project, the decade-spanning photo series titled Broken Mirror, New York-based visual artist Samantha Sutcliffe peers through her camera into the black mirror of American life.
To the Floor: Sam Besca’s Dichotomy of Dance
New York native and director Sam Besca’s To the Floor, a short film written by Electra Artemis, unearths the menacingly cannibalistic femininity cultivated beneath the glitzy norms of European ballroom dance tradition.
Dupe or Twin: The AI Fashion Model Creeps In
It seems we were expected to clap and cheer and act impressed by the fact that in a meeting of the editorial staff at Business of Fashion (BoF), only a “slight majority” correctly guessed which image of model Mathilda Gvarliani, provided by the Swedish multinational retailer H&M, was a photograph and which was generated by artificial intelligence.
‘Kissy Face’: Jake Santos on the Blur of Intimacy
Titled Kissy Face, Toronto-based artist Jake Santos’ new solo exhibition, showing at Blouin Division until early May, presents a series of miniature, close-up portraits rendered on wood panels.
Don’t Go, Woman Creative Director!
On March 13, Donatella Versace announced her departure from her creative director role at Italian luxury maison Versace via Instagram post, and all hell ensued.
Beauty and War in Chloe Majenta’s “Enantiodromia”
“I think I was really craving something a little bit more like banging my head against a wall without me actually doing it,” Chloe Majenta tells me.
Long Xi Vlessing’s Queens of the Night
An interesting fact about Montreal-based photographer Long Xi Vlessing lies in his own self-description. In an interview with Liminul, he confesses, “I have always been really attracted to people and strangers especially, even though secretly, I am very socially anxious.”