SABELO MLANGENI, THE ROYAL HOUSE OF ALLURE
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

SABELO MLANGENI, THE ROYAL HOUSE OF ALLURE

Like many cities in the world Lagos is a city of extremes. Individuals who fit into the mould of heteronormativity (especially those protected by wealth) are considered worthy of protection and celebration while others (feminised, queer and poor bodies) are rendered invisible and unworthy…

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CHI YIN SIM, THE SUITCASE IS A LITTLE BIT ROTTEN, 2023
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

CHI YIN SIM, THE SUITCASE IS A LITTLE BIT ROTTEN, 2023

“The suitcase is a little bit rotten” is a conceptual series of work using new and found imagery to speculate on the potentialities of transgenerational memory and inheritance, between the artist’s socialist grandfather – a political activist in British Malaya executed for his politics during the Cold War…

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CLAUDE CAHUN, SELECT WORKS
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

CLAUDE CAHUN, SELECT WORKS

Her first recorded self-portraits are dated as early as 1912, when the artist was about 18. In the early 1920s, she would change her name to the gender neutral Claude Cahun, which would be the third and last time the artist changed her name…

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KRISTINE POTTER, MANIFEST
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

KRISTINE POTTER, MANIFEST

Created while working in remote areas along the Western slope of Colorado between 2012 and 2015, Kristine Potter builds on her previous investigations of masculinity and the American Soldier, here fixing her gaze on a parallel archetype, the American Cowboy…

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AMBER BYRNE MAHONEY, FIRST HAIRCUT, 2023
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

AMBER BYRNE MAHONEY, FIRST HAIRCUT, 2023

The day we first cut his hair — I write “we" because it does feel something collaborative, doesn’t it? Something done together. There is the one with the hair, the one with scissors, the one saying: yes, please, go and cut his hair (and what right do I have?…

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