ADIDAS CONSORTIUM X HAVEN ULTRABOOST

Posted on 2017-03-20

Since opening in 2006, Canadian retailer HAVEN has become a major force in global menswear. Starting with physical stores in Vancouver and then Toronto, HAVEN has grown a truly international following. Its extensive online platform combines retail with elevated editorial and investigative features.

HAVEN has used its growing profile to represent life north of the border. While Canada is widely known for its cold winters and expansive wilderness, urban life is different and weather in the cities can be temperamental. Sitting close to the country’s Pacific coast, dark rainclouds loom over Vancouver for much of the year. For months on end, contending with the rain is part and parcel of daily life in the city.

Heavy weather and ominous skies provide the inspiration, a decade’s worth of experience with technical products the underlying know-how for this triple black UltraBOOST. HAVEN – always on point and full of fresh ideas – has opted for an uncaged, unstriped silhouette.

PRE-RELEASE – April 1st 2017 at HAVEN in:

– 52 East Cordova Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 1K2

– 145 Berkeley Street, Toronto, ON M5A 2X1

GENERAL RELEASE – April 8th 2017

www.adidas.co.uk/originals

  

THE EYES OF MY MOTHER

Posted on 2017-03-20

In their secluded farmhouse, a mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, teaches her daughter, Francisca, to understand anatomy and be unfazed by death. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor shatters the idyll of Francisca’s family life, deeply traumatizing the young girl, but also awakening unique curiosities. Though she clings to her increasingly reticent father, Francisca’s loneliness and scarred nature converge years later when her longing to connect with the world around her takes on a dark form.

In theatres March 24th, 2017

theeyesofmymother

  

XXRAY ADVENTURE TIME BY JASON FREENY

Posted on 2017-03-20

It’s Spring and the Sun Flowers are in bloom, just in time for Art Fair Tokyo 2017 (3.16-3.19). Perennial conspirators Ron English, JPS Gallery, and Made by Monsters have cultivated three varieties of sun flower, Smiley, Grin, and Sponge! These will be presented as an installation and available for sale JPS’s booth (N21). JPS will hold back a limited stock of each for online sales.

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ANDREW HOLLIGAN – DALSTON IN THE 80S

Posted on 2017-03-20

For photographer Andrew Holligan, Dalston in the 80s was a world apart from the New York fashion scene, which until 1984, was where he worked. But when he made the unexpected move there, he found a humanity on the streets of East London that changed him and his art forever.

Shot with a 1950s Rolleiflex, the black and white images accompanied by hand-written notes tell Holligan’s personal story, and also give a glimpse into the lives of numerous other characters he happened to meet during his 2 years spent living in Dalston.

Book 13 from the series ‘East London Photo Stories’

96pp hardcover, quarter-bound, gold foiled, 145 x 205mm

hoxtonminipress.com

  

STACEY STEERS – EDGE OF ALCHEMY

Posted on 2017-03-20

Edge of Alchemy concludes a trilogy of films including Phantom Canyon (2006) and Night Hunter (2011) that examine the psychological terrain of women’s inner worlds. By way of a painstaking and labor-intensive process, Steers assembled over 6,000 handworked photo collages, re-imagining American silent film actors Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor in a phantasmagoric narrative of creation and monstrous hybridities inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Fragments of historical etchings and photographs are combined to construct surreal settings: dreamlike topographies where barren fields are covered with dead bees and chartreuse flowers, and dark recesses where laboratories lost in time are outfitted with strange ironwork and ominous red beakers. Steers’ collage technique is layered, intimate and suggestive, and the fantastastical lifeworlds her collages embody reflect upon “the way we process experience and form memories subliminally,” as noted by the artist. Edge of Alchemy also reveals the startling emotional immediacy in early silent film performances by lingering over “fleeting expressions and extend(ing) them in a way that” richly expands what Steers cogently defines as “a state of interiority.” The film is accompanied by an original score by Lech Jankowski (Brothers Quay) and will be screened in its entirety during the exhibition’s run.

Exhibition runs through to April 15th, 2017

Catharine Clark Gallery
150 Minna Street
Ground Floor
San Francisco
CA 94105

cclarkgallery.com

  

JIM DOW – EAT & DRINK

Posted on 2017-03-20

Using an 8×10” view camera, Dow painstakingly photographs the light, the atmosphere, the colors, of international dining options. The alluring glow of neon beckons. His signature style elevates and ennobles these quirky locales. He has also eaten in most of them, being a connoisseur and fan of barbecue, tacos, ice cream, and all other foods encountered in his travels.

Long exposures allow Dow to illuminate the scene in a way that articulates every detail. This is definitely not the same as an iPhone snap. Dow’s images capture a sense of place, a sense of longing, and a sense of excitement.

Exhibition runs through to April 22nd, 2017

Janet Borden Inc.
91 Water Street
Brooklyn
New York
NY 11201

janetbordeninc.com