This Beautiful Fight

The blog of Sophia Wallace, American artist (b. 1978 Seattle, lives Brooklyn).
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No Fashion Please! on Amazon. The title may say “please,” but the 19 artists featured here are anything but polite in their rejection of traditional notions of fashion, gender and beauty. The media strategies employed are manifold, from staged photographic images, projections and performances to body sculptures, video and film. From Jeff Bark’s painterly and perverse “Flesh Rainbow” to Sophia Wallace’s portraits of feminized male models, these daring and reckless experiments veer closer to the ceremonies and rituals of body art than to fashion, and reinvent the red-carpet question: “who are you wearing?” Participating artists include Chan-Hyo Bae, Tracey Baran, Jeff Bark, Leigh Bowery/Fergus Greer, Steven Cohen/Marianne Greber, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Matthias Herrmann, Lea Golda Holterman, Izima Kaoru, Luigi & Luca, Sandra Mann, Martin & The evil eyes of Nur, Brigitte Niedermair, Erwin Olaf, Alex Prager, Hanna Putz, Viviane Sassen, Sophia Wallace and Bruce Weber. View high resolution

No Fashion Please! on Amazon

The title may say “please,” but the 19 artists featured here are anything but polite in their rejection of traditional notions of fashion, gender and beauty.

The media strategies employed are manifold, from staged photographic images, projections and performances to body sculptures, video and film. From Jeff Bark’s painterly and perverse “Flesh Rainbow” to Sophia Wallace’s portraits of feminized male models, these daring and reckless experiments veer closer to the ceremonies and rituals of body art than to fashion, and reinvent the red-carpet question: “who are you wearing?” Participating artists include Chan-Hyo Bae, Tracey Baran, Jeff Bark, Leigh Bowery/Fergus Greer, Steven Cohen/Marianne Greber, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Matthias Herrmann, Lea Golda Holterman, Izima Kaoru, Luigi & Luca, Sandra Mann, Martin & The evil eyes of Nur, Brigitte Niedermair, Erwin Olaf, Alex Prager, Hanna Putz, Viviane Sassen, Sophia Wallace and Bruce Weber.

“No Fashion, Please!” exhibition in Italian VOGUE “…a title that already sounds like a manifesto, one of… http://fb.me/19rzzEBG1 View high resolution

“No Fashion, Please!” exhibition in Italian VOGUE “…a title that already sounds like a manifesto, one of… http://fb.me/19rzzEBG1

No fashion, please!

I was reading Vogue,

when I found a news about an upcoming show at Kunsthalle in Vienna: No fashion, please! The show is curated by Peter Weiermair and consists in famous nude & fashion pictures focused on the relation between body & clothes. A big attention is dedicated to the genderless theme, and so I’m looking forward to see it!

I love photography, fashion, and I’m graduating with a thesis about genderless people. What else? ;)   via: carolina-rimondi

Installation detail with A Pretty Face, 3:30 single channel video by Sophia Wallace which premiered in the exhibition. Photographs shown are c-prints, mounted to aluminum, 24 x 20 in.
 — at KUNSTHALLE wien. View high resolution

Installation detail with A Pretty Face, 3:30 single channel video by Sophia Wallace which premiered in the exhibition. Photographs shown are c-prints, mounted to aluminum, 24 x 20 in.
— at KUNSTHALLE wien.

Sophia Wallace photographs men in irritating, namely typical female poses
— Art Critic Sabine B. Vogel, in her review in Die Presse
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