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Like a writer journaling their thoughts, Inès Longevial is constantly doodling across Post-it notes and cafe napkins. The French painter is known for her intimate self-portraiture that veers in the realm of abstraction in the way she projects feelings and emotions on the skin through color. Born in the South of France and now based in Paris, Longevial has unveiled a new exhibition at Almine Rech in Shanghai.As her first show in Mainland China, Les Silences du Désir (The Silences of Desire) comprises of a series of new paintings and works on paper that celebrate the female form and the ephemerality of emotion she experiences from season to season. "Inès Longevial gives life to a giant," wrote curator Elise Roche, "a brute yet fragile force, evoking a repressed desire that is expressed throu...

Yorgos Lanthimos has released a new photo-book chronicling BTS shots of his 2023 award-winning film, Poor Things. Produced in collaboration with Athens-based publisher Void, Dear God, the Parthenon is still broken offers fans a closer look at one of cinema's most intricate, kinky and eerie visual displays in recent memory. The God in the title of the book alludes to what Bella (Emma Stone) calls Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) throughout the movie, whose decrepit face mirrors the likes of Frankenstein and to which Void co-founders João Linneu and Myrto Steirou replicate in appearance through the publication's graphic cover. Linneu and Steirou recalled being "amazed" when being invited to see the sets during the film's production. "Everything was there: good photography and an artist we felt c...