FACE VALUE: ANGELINA MASICH

Beauty has never been more visible, nor more mediated. Between algorithmically curated feeds, AI-generated imagery, cosmetic technologies, looksmaxxing, and an endless stream of trend cycles, contemporary beauty increasingly exists within a landscape of optimization.

Transmission

Late afternoon light stripes the concrete at Lignes De Fuite studios on a rather hot late September afternoon. Pattern paper curls on a cutting table; a hem is pinned and unpinned; someone laughs because the zipper refuses to obey.