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🐘 Life Through Art 📖 Visual culture magazine online + in print 💻 ORDER NOW #Issue48: Autumn Winter 2022

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René Magritte, La Prophétie, 1937 #ImageOfTheDay

A cloud in motion by the master of surrealism René Magritte to mark the end of an unbelievable era.
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“My practice is not studio-based really. I’m more of a filmmaker and photographer, I go on site and film” #ZinebSedira
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@wkndpartyupdate, Wendy, 2016 #ImageOfTheDay

In need of a suitably Halloweeny read? In a 2019 feature for Elephant, Alice Bucknell explored contemporary art’s enduring interest in horror through the lens of a group show at Sadie Coles in London.
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“Imported Western tastes are shown to be nothing but window-dressing for greed and violence” #MasahiroShinoda #SamuelGoff
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The influence of underlying geology on all living things reminds us that the mineral world is not inert but vibrant. @HettieJudah
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Sasha Frolova, Fontes Amoris, 2020 #ImageOfTheDay

Looking to spark joy instead of fear with your Halloween costume this year? Well, inflatables are the way to go.
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“Women getting tattooed has been a fascination of the tabloid media for a long time”
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“Algerian history will be totally different to French history about Algeria. Who tells the truth, what is the truth?” #ZinebSedira @csaquinlan #StudioVisit
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Vanessa Stockard, Kevin, 2017-18 #ImageOfTheDay

Tomorrow is National Cat Day in the US, a day coined to raise awareness about the number of cats in need of rescuing in the country each year.
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A geological survey is not a neutral thing: it serves the interest of those with the wherewithal to dig, sell and distribute. Words by @HettieJudah
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“The tools of surrealism dredged the depths of the subconscious, and Tantra reached for the heights of the superconscious” #PennySlinger
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Dystopian times often call for escape. In #issue44, cover artist Lina Iris Viktor, Seana Gavin and Mike Perry, among others, share their experiences of euphoria, and the impact this has had on their work.

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Marina Denisova, The Bathroom at Casa Mollino, 2019 #ImageOfTheDay

Taken at the perfectly preserved former bolthole of the late Italian architect, designer and photographer Carlo Mollino, this image was captured by photographer Marina Denisova.
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A cocktail of yakuza potboiler and film noir, Pale Flower is a far cry from the Italian Renaissance world of Da Vinci. #MasahiroShinoda #SamuelGoff
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“The exploration of the ground beneath our feet speaks of the particularities of home, migration and colonial exploitation” @HettieJudah
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Zineb Sedira revisits her past as she prepares for a future where she leaves her studio behind… Words by @csaquinlan
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I wrote a feature for the wonderful @ElephantMag on the geological turn in art - a celebration of my book Lapidarium which comes out with @johnmurrays on Thursday

Bittersweet this, since it may be one of the last pieces Elephant publishes 💔 - such a great mag, it will be missed

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Adrian Paci, Centro di Permanenza Temporanea, 2007 #ImageOfTheDay

All stepped up with nowhere to go… This perplexing image is taken from a video work by Albanian artist @adrian_paci titled Centro di Permanenza Temporanea or “Temporary Detention Centre”.
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To realize Hampton’s goal of making a robotic creature that felt “alive”, the creatures squealed when detecting light changes, snored and sneezed
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