Fashion, Culture, Art, Montreal, Toronto
The female gaze is thriving in visual culture, with female photographers increasingly challenging the male-constructed vantages that have defined womanhood throughout history. Now, one trailblazing artist is taking the concept even further, using the most private part of her body to capture intimate moments that would otherwise go undocumented. New York-based artist Dani Lessnau, 32, took…
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Celia Croft, a photographer, and Kate Kidney Bishop, a stylist, are both creatives fascinated by the world of women’s bodybuilding. Outsiders of the subculture, the two artists were intrigued by the sports high-flying aesthetic and its melange of “glamour mixed in with the extremes of a challenging sport.” Bishop was equally intrigued by “the interaction…
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At the beginning of last year, Vivienne Westwood and Andreas Kronthaler made the most of the relaxation of restrictions across Europe traveling down to Naples to see friends – a trip that would coincidentally set the scene for their SS22 campaign against “collapsing 16th-century houses, fishing boats, and vibrant locals.” The iconic Italian city ended…
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Photographer Hannah Louis Wild shares her latest series Live Laugh Love — a captivating collection of awry and nostalgic images exploring childhood, friendship, aging, and the passage of time.
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Nadia Lee Cohen was one of the most prolific image-makers of 2021. Born in London but now based in Los Angeles, the artist released her first book Women last year. A compilation of contemporary womanhood created over a period of six years, the work was published by Idea and bound in gold cloth featuring 100 cinematic…
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The Red Room, a multi-disciplinary artist installation in the St Henri borough of Tiohtià:ke / Montreal this past week, was equal parts community, femininity, and unfettered artistic expression.
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Re-conceptualizing how public space is perceived today in tandem with how they are envisioned has to do not only with the future of a city but also with its past.
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With just a glance at one of Lea Colombo’s photographs, you’ll instantly recognize it: hazy, psychedelic, and saturated in profound colour, the South African’s work is a multi-faceted exploration of feminine energy.
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Belgian photographer Line-Teta Blémont’s ‘’Strange Banalities’’ is a series of photographs depicting a wordless feeling and ambiance that’s situated somewhere between liminal spaces, nostalgia and anemoia.
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Brent Cleveland and Sheila Nadimi, two artists living and working in Montreal, are both perhaps emblematic of the city’s propensity toward the avant-garde.
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