High Voltage Gallery

To promote equality in curatorial practices by raising awareness about biased creative decisions.

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Meet Motolani Osinowo, lover of rice and hater of cheese. She grew up in three different continents, she was exposed to a plethora of not only cultures but also styles.

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She has always been interested in fashion from a young age. She enjoys designing and styling outfits Piecing together outfits speaks to who she is as a person. It ties in closely with her sense of identity and builds up her confidence to speak up to her individuality.

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Meet Duruo Murray, lover of food and Unsolved mystery videos and hater of any reptile that may exist. Raised in Brooklyn, NY, he was influenced by Youtubers Aaron Marino and Jose Zuniga who try to teach the essentials of how to be the best versions of yourself.

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Murray is also a part-time image consult, running his company Match Press Dress. He helps people improve their personal brand through their clothes and attitudes. So, if you need some help, follow him @matchpressdress.

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Naomi Campbell was born in May of 1970 in Streatham, South London. Her mother, Valerie Morris, was born in Jamaica but spent most of Campbell’s life abroad, living mostly in Italy or Switzerland in pursuit of a dancing career.

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Campbell was only fourteen when she was scouted by Beth Boldt, the head of the Synchro Agency. Campbell’s career, like those of the other women in this initial generation of supermodels, signified a new tradition in the fashion industry.

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Patrick is a British multimedia artist currently living and working in New York City. He paints from a personal and provocative point of view, fueled with passionate personal memoirs baring his successes and failures, riddled with humiliation and desire in turn.

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Exploring the use of paint, his work strives for impact through layering, texture, and manipulation to create increased depth and connection. This results in impressions that are unpolished and unrefined, retaining the raw emotion that inspired their existence.
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Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo not only breaks through but recreates boundaries in her work. Her avant-garde designs challenge conventional notions of beauty, taste, and fashionability.

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Kawakubo’s fashion, unpretty and bulbous in bizarre areas, is a gauntlet laid down to the narrow guardrails of vanity that trammel womenswear. Many of her pieces are unsized, and her dressing rooms have no mirrors so that customers focus on how they feel, over how they look.

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This week we’ll be taking a closer look at the fashion industry and the lack of equal representation and opportunity prevalent in both small ventures and beloved brands across the globe.
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Fashion, an industry dominated by women’s wear and controlled by female dollars, with an image sold by women to women, is still largely run by men.