MANIFESTO

#61

ART NOW

DEANA LAWSON

2021.07.10

Photography DEANA LAWSON
by MUSE

The Hugo Boss Prize 2020 winner Deana Lawson draws on the legacies of historical portraiture, documentary photography, and the family album, but transcends these traditions, constructing scenes that merge lived experience with imagined narratives.

Her photographs and films result from collaborations with strangers whom the artist encounters by chance or deliberately seeks out. These individuals are often depicted within richly textured domestic settings in which the details of décor, lighting, and pose are precisely choreographed. The photographer creates images that are rooted in a moment from the tangible world, but ultimately exist in the shimmering in-between space of dreams, memories, and spiritual communion, where the every day is transfigured into the uncanny and the magnificent.

In this exhibition, large-scale photographs, are arrayed in a dense constellation that surrounds a spectral rendering of a torus—a three-dimensional shape formed by a circle rotated around a central axis. As such, the installation draws on the thermodynamic concept of centropy, a term that describes how the electrification of matter leads to regeneration and harmonious order. The same impulse of renewal through creative energy is central to Lawson’s vision, in which her subjects are figured as ineffably splendid, occupying a world that they command absolutely.

DESIGN

HARRY NURIEV

2022.10.05

Harry Nuriev in conversation with Paige Silveria. A point fo view with monochromatic schemes, a totally personal minimalism described in working with form, as the design transforms something from one form to another.

FROM THE MAGAZINE

CHLOE WISE

2022.10.04

Wise’s work explores advertising, fashion, multi national brands and the taboo, and, using humor, rethinks and analyses the role of female bodies within these systems, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.

BALENCIAGA EYEWEAR

FADE TO GREY

2022.09.29

Effortless and contemporary, the way these Muses are wearing Balenciaga Rive Gauche eyewear: a new cool and clean retro-style with a hint of vintage quality.