Satyricon

Russian photographer Alexey Kiselef known for the editorials he did for Dazed&Confused, ID or Russion Vogue for instance does more than only sightly fashion photography. With his artwork he goes far behind the surface. He takes current symbolic codes from today's fashion and media discourse, twists them around in an ironical and satyrical sense and exposes its debauched, obscene and lubricous aspects.

This photo triffles with lots of codes:

Alexey evidently refers to Diesel's SS 08 "live fast" ad campaign showing a young and sexy women changing her baby's napkin while sprinting on high heels, the vaunted ideal of looking still more sexy in the fifties than in the twenties just like Madonna or Sharon Stone, and for sure the trend of adopting children  - and so many more...

 

so for all of you who have the chance to live in BERLIN, you definetely should go there:

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Alexey Kiselev
13.-27.11.2009
Opening 13.11.2009, 19h
Lucas Carrieri Gallery
Torstr. 96, 10119 Berlin

all images by Alexey Kiselef:  www.kiselef.com

and above all thanks to Mahret from f&art due to whom I discovered Alexey's artwork.