Exhibiting his full iPhone Camera Roll (selfies, pictures, videos, screenshots, etc), Ben Elliot uses contents from his privacy to emphasize current and emerging ideas such as self-branding, social media, marketing, collaboration, networking, human enhancements, computer networks – foreshadowing artificial intelligence. Displayed on an interactive stand evoking the visual codes of event design and marketing, the iPhone becomes an artwork while remaining useful as a product itself, opening the project to other formats than art.
Camera Roll can be considered as the making off of the thinking, life, and projects of the artist before these contents result in a clear and simplified “personal brand” that can easily be consumed on both his social networks and works. Elliot here uses the strategies of influencer marketing capitalizing on the private life of its opinion leaders to grow businesses.
Ben Elliot Camera Roll Until May 20th, 2018 Cour Vitrée des Beaux Arts de Paris 14, rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris as part of Jeune Création
This season designer Masanori Morikawa’s FW19 collection entitled “Signal Noise – S/N” takes its cue from the 1994 art performance piece of the same name staged by Dumb Type.
Embracing both tradition and subversion, the field and the street, codified notions of taste and aspiration, crossing British cultures and class boundaries, is both wryly looked at and celebrated in the collection.
Icons meet icons for the Y-3 Fall/Winter 2019 collection, in which adidas and Yohji Yamamoto reinterpret their individual codes through the lens of one another.
The Fall/Winter 2019 collection collides heritage with the bold and psychedelic, as British classicism is modernized for the Stella man and fused with pop prints and vivid color.
“The more beautiful the sky, the more hopeless the neighborhood.”
Cover feat. Jhona Burjack at Next Models shot by Kito Muñoz
“And even if we change neighborhoods, cities or countries, we always carry with us that sense of personal transformation that a piece of land, with its buildings, parks, bars, and people, has given us. We are almost certain to hang on to a sense of gratitude and nostalgia for it.”
