VENUXXX touch-up on museum photos or installation carton steel on marble and plaster by Orion Kostas Xylouris (Greece) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). Real-size replica of the Venus of Milo. Nipples are censored from the classic little stars of the posters of b-movie sex films. An object classic symbol of beauty becomes subject rough and itchy, to highlight the absurdity of the censor act.

Venuxxx

Venuxxx è una scultura in gesso copia a grandezza reale della Venere di Milo. I Capezzoli sono censurati dalle classiche “stelline” dei manifesti dei “film luci rosse”.
Un oggetto simbolo classico della bellezza diviene così soggetto scabroso e pruriginoso, a evidenziare l’assurdità dell’atto censoreo.

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FEEL ALONE touch-up on NASA archive photos by Jon Ekborg (Sweden) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). The work of Jon Ekborg multiplies exponentially star clusters of galaxies and therefore leads to hyperbole the amount of livable possible worlds and their inhabitants. A dense universe of beings alone.

Feel Alone

“känna sig ensam” in svedese significa sentirsi soli. Il lavoro di Jon Ekborg moltiplica in modo esponenziale gli ammassi stellari delle galassie e per tanto porta all’iperbole la quantità di mondi vivibili possibili e i loro abitanti. Un universo fittissimo di esseri soli.

“känna sig ensam” is the Swedish for “feeling lonely”. Jon Ekborg’s works exponentially multiply star clusters of galaxies, thus bringing the number of possibly livable worlds, and or their inhabitants, to hyperbole. A huge universe, dense with lonely beings.

REVIEWS touch-up on museum photos or installation carton steel on marble and plaster by Orion Kostas Xylouris (Greece) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). "Pictures of nude models. Eyes cleared to censor the identity. Because the nude is scandalous!" O.K. Xylouris.

Reviews

“Foto di modelli nudi.
Gli occhi cancellati per censurarne l’identità.
Perché il nudo fa scalpore!”
Orion Kostas Xylouris

“Photos of nude models.
Their eyes covered, to censor identity.
Because nudity is scandal
!”
Orion Kostas Xylouris

ONE DAY ON EARTH (Video) [min 4:08] by Giampaolo Marcantoni (Italy) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). One Day on Earth is a video-opera which compares with the eyes of an alien, two different areas of the planet and simulates the perception.

One Day on Earth (Video)

One Day on Earth (trad. Un Giorno sulla Terra) è una video-opera della durata di 4:08 min, che confronta con gli occhi di un alieno, due diversi spazi del pianeta e ne simula la percezione.
Vedi il video in Hi-Res on Vimeo…

One Day on Earth is a 4:08 minute video-work, which compares, through the eyes of an alien, two different areas of the planet, simulating their perception.
See this video in Hi-Res on Vimeo…

DEAD UNIFORMS military uniforms stuffed with kapok cotton, embroidery and doil. By Goran Branko Vidovic (Bosnia) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). Uniforms emptied body but still full of the soul, not the soldier, but the man who wore it. Every man is different, in spite of what the word "Uniform" want to delete: authenticity.

Dead Uniforms

Uniformi svuotate del corpo ma comunque piene dell’anima, non del soldato, ma dell’uomo che le indossava. Ogni uomo è differente, a dispetto di quello che la parola “Uniform” voglia cancellare: l’autenticità.
Ogni individuo ha la sua storia e un sangue diverso: sempre prezioso. Così Goran Branko Vidovic fa descrivere ogni pozza di sangue da una diversa ricamatrice che produce una differente trama del centrino e per tanto dona una specifica identità.

Uniforms containing no bodies, but still full with souls, not of the soldiers, but of the men who once wore these clothes. Every man is different, in spite of what the word “Uniform” wishes to erase: authenticity.
Each individual has a history and a diverse, yet always precious, blood. Therefore Goran Branko Vidovic has a different embroiderer process each pool of blood, manufacturing a varied weave of the doily and therefore giving each bloodstain its specific identity.

HERE TO HELP YOU touch-up on TV images by George Paul Salle (France-USA) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). "Here to help you" seems romantically mention the words "to protect and serve" that appears on police badges and American on their cars. Sadly the same inscription was also on cars and badges of police officers who have massacred in '91 the young black man Rodney King. The critical sense must be constantly exercised, says George Paul Salle, and it is always good to ask when a gesture of peace does not conceal an act of conquest.

Here to help you

Here to help you (trad. Qui per Aiutarti) sembra citare romanticamente la scritta “to protect and serve” che appare sui distintivi della polizia americana e sulle loro auto. Tristemente la stessa scritta era anche sulle auto e i distintivi dei poliziotti che nel ’91 hanno massacrato il giovane di colore Rodney King. Il senso critico deve essere costantemente esercitato, ci dice George Paul Salle, ed è bene domandarsi sempre quando un gesto di pace non nasconda un atto di conquista.

“Here to help you” seems to romantically paraphrase the motto “to protect and serve” appearing on USA police badges and cars. Sadly, the same inscription was also on cars and badges of the police officers who, in 1991, killed the young Afro-American Rodney King. We must constantly practice our critical sense, George Paul Salle tells us, and it is important to always ask oneself if a peace gesture does instead conceal an act of conquest.

SITTING WOOD art installation by Giampaolo Marcantoni (Italy) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). A futuristic vision of nature. A future where the trees do not sprout from the ground but will be equipped with chairs, a wooden chair created by the demolition of a tree.

Sitting wood

Una visione futuristica della natura. Un futuro dove gli alberi non spunteranno dalla terra ma saranno dotati di sedia, una sedia di legno nata dall’abbattimento di un albero.

A futuristic vision of nature. A future when trees will not simply sprout from the earth, but will be equipped with a chair; a wooden chair, born from cutting down a tree.

BEAUTIFUL AS YOU ARE ink on magazine advertisement by Sharifa Dot (Tunisia) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). The advertising pages of magazines, promoting beauty products or accessories to enhance the feminine aesthetic. These, for Sharifa Dot, are the "Burka" that make women segregated in all latitudes of the world.

Beautiful as you are

In questo progetto le pagine pubblicitarie delle riviste patinate, promuovono prodotti di bellezza o complementi per esaltare l’estetica femminile. Questi, per Sharifa Dot, sono i “Burqa” che rendono la donna segregata a ogni latitudine del mondo.

In this project, the advertising pages of glossy magazines promote beauty products and accessories to enhance the beauty of women. But these products, for Sharifa Dot, are “Burqa”, segregating women in every part of the world.

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