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2022“Cellulite, rolls and stretch marks”: Deja Patterson challenges body standards in her erotically charged paintings
The artist discusses how social media – initially a hotbed for promoting restrictive body standards – is now an empowering source for inspiration.
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Iga Bielawska paints a world that incorporates womanhood, queerness and the zodiac

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Fat, feminism and fear of Instagram: Sofia Hydman's superb gifs

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Louise Bonnet paints exaggerated bodies as symbols of melancholy and loneliness

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“Every portrait I paint, you can find me in it”: Roxanne Sauriol’s subjects are all derived from her past

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“Skateboarding feels a lot like therapy”: Karabo Mooki shares stories of South Africa’s all-female skate group, Island Gals

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Jamison Lung bends type rules and “pushes the limits of legibility”

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Anton Renborg shoots sun-dappled bodies with a hint of the unusual...

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Female friendship is rendered into thousands of pixels in Lily Bunney’s pointillist paintings