A shoe campaign I made for @jw_anderson a couple of years back
Bonus content:
@ian.law trawled through hundreds of eerily empty images of postwar Britain to background and contrast with the sneakers’ retro design and bright colourways …though looking at it now, it seems we were seeing postwar Britain as a stand in for the post Covid world of 2021 — the protagonist parachuting in with new, jolly plans.
Thank you @libertymcanena for the research.
Street photos by @melo_onny
Backgrounds: britainfromabove.org.uk
'The faces are cast from friends and family; the hands and feet are Kira’s. Beings materialise in the making, twisting and turning on their road to resolution. The sense of an individual evolves from a mood, a recollection, the edges shifted in the retelling. Their gender is vague. I ask Kira if they’re expanded self-portraits. She says they’re more like combinations of herself, loved ones and people she’s conjured up...' @jennifer_higgie
A brand new publication - Kira Freije: Unspeak the Chorus - looks in-depth at @kirafreije ’s exhibition on display at The Hepworth Wakefield until 4 May.
The book includes an interview between Freije and The Hepworth Wakefield’s Artistic Director @smith.jayne.laura , while essays by @jennifer_higgie , @amy_bvdd and @jamiesonwebster provide insight into the artist's creative processes. A poetic contribution by @vanessa_onwuemezi offers a profound understanding of Freije’s transformative practice.
Designed by @studiomathiasclottu with installation photography by @lewiser .
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Anthea Hamilton, Delphine Gaborit and my contribution to the new “Group Work” issue of Motor Journal.
Over a series of WhatsApp calls and through sharing hundreds of found and archive images, we arrived upon a still-image performance, an editorial insertion that visually resolves some of our collective impressions of ruche curtains, curriculum vitae, Dallas, excess, the gradients behind handbag ads, eyes that know better, touch tours, ways to die together, corporate identities, access, and our individual preoccupations and emotional tendencies that slice through life. Thank you so much Isabelle Bucklow and Hannah Woods for inviting us, and for prompting the three of us to work together for the first time, we’ve discovered something special and there’s more to come.
Bonus points: the sliced-in dp spreads were made collectively but each one represents one of the three of us. Can you see who is who?
Lx
A few weeks ago me and @lewiser headed down to the studio of @kirafreije to shoot a still life for the '2025 Rewind' issue of @thewiremagazine
Me and Lewis used loose materials as found in Kira's studio to create arrangements that in someway resembled sundials. 'The picking up, turning over and putting with'
Thanks @lewiser@kirafreije@sean.cw and The Wire.
Kira has a show at @hepworthwakefield that just opened, go check it out if you are up that way.
And go subscribe to The Wire as a Xmas present for yourself if you haven't already...
I don’t usually suffer pain, but this has been the exception. Thank you to my brother Elliot for rescuing me after whatever happened a fortnight ago. Still not a glimmer of a recollection, no witnesses. My jaw will heal apparently. Skeleton selfie too incredible not to post here. Goodnight opioids goodnight mush.
