Tag: beauty
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As usual for Somerset House Studios commissions, the artwork begins as soon as you enter. The floor and walls of the Lancaster Rooms are a warm, almost putrid pink, the colour of a wrinkled rose petal after a week in stagnant water, feeding only on its own mouldy roots. The shade is quaint and natural…
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On its fleeting visit to the UK after winning the Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution at IDFA last year, Omar Mismar’s meditative documentary A Frown Gone Mad brings Beirut’s industrial complex of beautification to London’s ICA. From a single room in a Bouba’s popular salon, Mismar explores the production of war, beauty, and cinema, with…
