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Laura Mulder’s “The Unreal Reality”

This stunningly beautiful, structural collection, entitled The Unreal Reality, was designed by Laura Mulder as her graduation project at the Art Academy of Utrecht in 2011. Modeled by Thiska van den Heuvel and Lara Aimee, photographed by Cor and Leonie Baauw of Local Androids, with hairstyling by Jenny Kroese.

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Thomas Devaux

The haunting, stunningly beautiful photography of Thomas Devaux has a subtly disturbing quality of visual distortion and a dreamlike atmosphere.

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Guy le Tattooer

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Mika Aoki: Glass Viruses, Microorganisms, and Biota in the Modern World

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Cicadian Symmetries: The Art of Aubrey Learner

Aubrey Learner’s incredibly realistic drawings are intriguing studies in precision and subtle repulsion. Reminiscent of naturalist illustrations, her imagery combines inorganic elements such as scissors, ribbons, corset lacing, and feminine undergarments, with insects, leeches, butterflies, snails, and worms. These beautifully detailed compositions have a mysterious and jarring sense of juxtaposition.

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Ariana Page Russell: Art Via Skin

Ariana Page Russell explores the artistic possibilities of dermatographia, “a condition in which one’s immune system releases excessive amounts of histamine, causing capillaries to dilate and welts to appear (lasting about thirty minutes) when the hypersensitive skin’s surface is lightly scratched. This allows me to painlessly draw on my skin with just enough time to photograph the results. Even though I can direct this ephemeral response by drawing on it, the reaction is involuntary, much like the uncontrollable nature of a blush.”

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The Photography of Sylwia Makris

In her series In Search of the Divine and Diadema, Sylwia Makris collaborates with avant-garde fashion designer Katarzyna Konieczka to produce haunting, emotive, and sartorially fascinating imagery.

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Illustrations by Hsiao Ron Cheng

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Olivier de Sagazan

Olivier de Sagazan’s truly disturbing, visceral, liminal performance art pieces tread the fluid boundaries between beauty, grotesqueness, terror, uncanniness, and creativity. The emotional intensity and sheer bizarreness of his uncanny art, which is a hybrid of painting, photography, sculpture, and performance, takes the viewer beyond ordinary considerations of aesthetic pleasingness into a world of violently expressed and unnervingly arcane impulses.

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Dennis Cooper + Gisèle Vienne

These eerie yet alluring adolescent life-size dolls were created for the theater pieces which Dennis Cooper and Gisèle Vienne have collaborated on since 2004. As Cooper says, “We consider the dolls to be actors in our works almost on a par with the human performers, and, although the dolls aren’t credited individually in the works, they each have names and fictional biographies constructed by Gisele. These biographies are used to determine which roles might be suited to their ‘personalities.'”

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