The cult of the self
- magazine : Sleek
- numero : 60 - 2019
- date : 04 janvier 2019
- catégorie : Art de vivre
Sommaire
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Watch your language
Montblanc’s Summit 2 is a very smart watch. As well as the
timeless design you expect from the storied brand, it’s got one
of the most future-facing assistant interfaces available on the
wrist, with everything from a personal virtual running coach to
top-of-the-range battery life and processing power, alongside
calendar notifications, maps and jet-lag-crushing travel tips.
We got chatting with the Summit 2 over a busy day in Berlin. -
Haifaa Al-Mansour
The director whose 2012 debut about a young girl growing up in
Saudi Arabia stoked controversy globally, speaks to us about a lifetime
making radical art, Mary Shelley and her mission to dispel the myths
about life in the Saudi kingdom. -
Tania Franco Klein
The photographer turning
anxiety into art -
Kenta Cobayashi
Japanese photographer and digital
artist Kenta Cobayashi makes images
inspired by graffiti, Nineties tech
nostalgia and clouds - Can a perfume challenge the gender binary?
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Quit Playing Games
To better understand tomorrow’s hypermediated world, we could
do worse than to follow the experience of today’s video gamers.
Writer and artist Michael Salu considers the increasing prevalence
of synthesised experience in our day-to-day lives -
Martine Syms
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Where are the women ?
As the centenary of Bauhaus approaches, new attention is being paid
to the German design school’s pioneering but largely forgotten
female members. But is it too little too late? Lou Stoppard explores
how the women of the Bauhaus have been overlooked and why their
renaissance is overdue -
London portrait
Art,
austerity
& hope -
Agata Ingarden
Founder of London’s Soft Opening gallery Antonia Marsh explains
the significance of Agata Ingarden’s eco-conscious caramel
sculptures ahead of the Polish artist’s forthcoming show at the
space next year -
Dieter Buchhart
Curator Dieter Buchhart on how his overlapping Egon Schiele and
Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibitions in Paris this autumn reveal the
artists’ knack for depicting humanity’s irrational cruelty in their
self-reflexive paintings and drawings -
Generation
From smartphones to voice-activated digital assistants, the
abundance of devices capable of listening to our everyday lives
has grown in recent years. Left unchecked, however, their potential
for abuse is immense. Drawing on examples from the work of
multimedia artist and human rights investigator Lawrence Abu
Hamdan, writer Huw Nesbitt considers this phenomenon in the
context of power and violence -
Double bind
Taking the lead from
the strong and autonomous
women of Berlin
who practice power over
urban living, we shoot
Armani’s 2019 androgynous
Resort collection
and find that these
are clothes to be taken
seriously in - Agents of change
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Sardinia dreaming
New York artist, Jeremyville, who teamed up with BOSS for
their 2018 Holiday Collection, lets his imagination run
free to illustrate our winter daydreams. The serene blues
and sandy browns of the Italian beaches blend seamlessly
into the 2019 BOSS Cruise Collection, taking us away from
the icy concrete of Berlin.