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art fashion. fashion art.
The Largest Possible Audience is wanted
It’s Helle Mardahl’s first solo exhibition in New York at LaViolaBank and it’s an absolute must for everyone into avant-garde. Helle’s art is made for getting lost in it. The viewer is confronted with heads, fingers, arms and legs popping at her screaming about the change of world, shift of values to more commercial ways. Despite their fragmented bodies they all seem to shoulder the weight of it. Morals, ethics and integrity suffer; illusions dissolve – balance has been corrupted.
Her use of organic materials stimulates your senses, it comes all really close and is so stopping. Stop, breathe, think…let go. Life is wonderful.
stop for a few seconds and breathe, come to a halt to look around and adjust.
A fat woman desperately clings on to her man as he tries to escape. An anorexic female torso covers her private parts. A dog looks smug and filled with authority and a tiny man strives to regain his personal equilibrium through statements of power. Their audience crowds around them.
The work confronts an increasing human demand of status symbols in a world where diamonds, teddy bears and jewellery are confused with love, status and attention. The overwhelming excess in Mardahl’s works pinpoints a consumer culture out of control and its impact on contemporary society.
This is a real modern acute issue in my opinion, possibly since a while and a lot of forward thinkers have turned the right way (well what is the right way, let’s ask..) but I am so glad that people who can reach so many people, the largest possible audience in fact, are pointing out problems that seem so obvious but are often so conveniently disguised and multiplied.
I am not normally a problem making person who wants to save the world and preach, opposite: I like fun..but – I do like to keep in mind to be considerate and thoughtful, stop for a few seconds and breathe, come to a halt to look around and adjust.
Did I not just ask for a revolution? Here we go, Helle is on it. She changes the world one by one..If you haven’t been yet, go now!
[Helle Mardahl (born 1976) is educated in fashion design from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. She lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. ] Hopefully there will be an exhibition in the UK soon..
LaViolaBank Gallery
917 463 3901
www.laviolabank.com
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This looks absolutely amazing and kinda disturbing and awesome. I will check it out.
oh la la. i love this stuff.
fashion is art and art is fashionable.
they go hand in hand. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye out for future works by Helle Mardahl.