Socotran Desert Rose (Adenium obesum subsp. socotranum (Vierh.) Lavranos)
Hilma af Klint, The Swan, No. 04, Group IX/SUW, 1914-15, oïl on canvas, 150 x 150 cm
when a minor inconvenience happens and u start singing cellophane
By Alyona Kuzmina For Tush Magazine February 2021. Makeup By Yui Ishibashi.
Tomihiro Kono
Personas 111
shot by Sayaka Maruyama
Room Portraits | Menno Aden
Through challenging camera angles Menno Aden abstracts most familiar actual living environments and public interiors into flattened two-dimensional scale models. A camera that the artist installed on the ceiling of various rooms takes pictures downwards of the interiors. The resulting images lay out space in symmetrical compositions that look like assemblages stripped off any kind of objectivity. The views into private homes and secret retreats bring up associations of the ubiquitous observation camera. The notion of surveillance is systematically played out by the artist to hint at society’s voyeuristic urge that popular culture has made mainstream.
-Miriam Nöske




