The Queen
by Chacha for Sang Bleu, 2008
who passed it gracefully
to
Lingering Whispers
She is also the cover
of the Lingering Whispers catalogue
due on the 15th of April 2010
the
countdown
has
began
!
Categories: exhibition, publication
Tagged: catalogue, Chacha, cover, design, group exhibition, Lingering Whispers, queen, Sang Bleu, tattoo
Look, out of the shadows deep into the wells
I created in your eyes when they were empty
Never to speak of the smell of
Greed, or hope that
Echoes of bright crocuses used in the smelting
Rituals of all that celluloid
I have forgotten where it went
Now, left behind are traces of cotton
Ginger hair in a brush and an empty [...]
Tagged: Back, behind, body, bottle, bright, celluloid, cotton, create, crypt, deep, down, etched, exhibition, existence, eyes, fastening, forgotten, ginger, gratification, group exhibition, hair, instant, J.L. Nash, left, lingering, Lingering Whispers, London, look, man, my, now, poem, run, shadow, shadows, slid, smell, smelting, speak, step, story, through, titual, traces, walking, wanting, well, whisper, word
This exhibition stands, an artistic platform where art and fashion debate the merits of creation with the viewer. It dares to speak of over 40 international talents who explore the borderland where fashion is art; deepest fears turn into innermost whims, glam replaces gloom and depression metamorphoses into seduction. New perspectives shout of every stereotype [...]
Categories: exclusive, preview, publication
Tagged: art, Carolyn Cowan, catalogue, Christina Kruse, Claudia Seidel, contemporary art, crypt, design, exhibition, fashion, graphic design, group exhibition, J.L. Nash, Jeanne-Salomé Rochat, Lingering Whispers, murmer, pages, Predrag Pajdic, print, publication, Samanta Millaray Vega Ramirez, Sang Bleu, Sarah Bailey, soft, St Pancras Church, Virginie Puertolas-Syn, voice, voices
On the backdrop of the stage, an erotic film of a beautiful model with a snake writhing across her breast is projected. Enormous predatory robot cameras prowl the catwalk filming the parade of models that stalk by in their evermore exquisite, otherworldly ensembles, balanced on vertiginous ‘armadillo shoes’ like space-age chopines. Occasionally the cameras turn [...]
Categories: exclusive, exhibition, fashion, word
Tagged: Alexander McQueen, Beauty, Christina Kruse, Christophe Haleb, contemporary art, crypt, Cyrille Weiner, Dom Agius, dress, Elsa Schiaparelli, Erick Soler, exhibition, fashion, fashion editor, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, Hollywood, Katarina Mootich, Lingering Whispers, Louis Vuitton, opulence, photograph, Plato's Atlantis, Predrag Pajdic, provocative, Ricci/Forte, Salvador Dali, Sang Bleu, Sarah Bailey, St Pancras Church, Wallis Simpson
Sang Bleu was initiated in 2004 in London as an attempt to create a publication proposing a contemporary and experimental vision of modern culture and style. Rejecting the usual categorizations and segmentations, Sang Bleu’s statement is to use Art, Fashion, Sociology, Literature, but also – more unexpectedly – Tattooing, Body Modification, Fetish and other subcultures [...]
Categories: exhibition, publication
Tagged: art, body modification, contemporary, culture, exhibition, fashion, fetish, Lingering Whispers, literature, publication, Sang Bleu, sociology, style, tattoo, tattooing, xperimental
Since 1999 London centred architect and urbanist, Tapio Snellman has mostly been preoccupied with co-running his all-over-the-place disciplinary creative practice, Neutral. The vast experience of producing architecture related media and fetishising over the built environment and its effect on people, has crystallised in video installations and animations, in which architectural space and urban landscape is [...]
Categories: artwork, exclusive, exhibition
Tagged: Elsa, Elsa Alexandra Snellman, exhibition, imaginary, installation, Lingering Whispers, Memory, old, painting, Tapio Snellman, unfinished
Wren Britton was born the year David Bowie released Ziggy Stardust… He spent his youth either up in trees reading or making mini-terarriums from Tic Tac boxes for insects he found in his yard. He now passes his time making jewellery and accessories from bones, feathers, hair and objects lost or finally found. He also [...]
Categories: artist, exhibition, jewellery
Tagged: design, exhibition, fashion, gmalour, jewellery, Lingering Whispers, New York, Wren Britton
Yvonne De Rosa was born In Naples in 1975. After graduating in Political Science she decided to move to London and study at the Central St Martins. In 2006 she won the Woman International Prize in Photography and in 2007 her series Afterdark received with the first prize from the International Photography Awards (IPA), as [...]
Categories: contemporary art, design, exhibition, photography
Tagged: bed, Lingering Whispers, photography, snake, Wish List, Yvonne de Rosa
Michal Ohana-Cole was born in Halfa, Israel in 1974. She completed her BA studies at Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London in 2000. Her art practice instigates the complex everlasting relationship between money, death and sexuality as well as the notion that one inevitably controls the other. Michal lives and works in [...]
Categories: exhibition, photography
Tagged: exhibition, Lingering Whispers, Michal Ohana-Cole, photography, Secret Delights
