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Jennifer Packer

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Packer looks for tenderness, for vulnerability, for intimacy. The viewer has to feel the human contact, the realness of the person. “My work is about love and generosity. It does not have anything to do with image making.” Her generosity towards her models may be big, but the space, the context, is very important too. There is no hierarchy. It’s about body and space together. Therefore many times they have the same color.

Rob Perrée analyzes the work of Jennifer Packer.

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Mulugeta Tafesse

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Nick Cave

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American artist Nick Cave shows his ‘Sound Suits’ in the ICA in Boston. Is his exhibition proving that fashion is entering the art world more and more or is it showing the work of an artist who wants to surprise his audience by crossing the borders between art, fashion and kitsch?

Rob Perrée tries to give an answer.

 

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Trenton Doyle Hancock

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Malick Sidibé

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