At a Seoul launch marked by Ian McMahon’s shattered trompe-l’œil plaster curtain and Damien Jalet’s doll-like choreography, the eyewear brand debuted its fourth Maison Margiela collaboration, translating the French house's signature ethos of deconstruction into 68 eyewear designs.
Curated by Tīna Pētersone, the conceptual exhibition draws on Arnold van Gennep’s rite of passage framework to construct a formal, multi-media mythology around the mourning, autonomy, and bodily transformation of divorce.
Presented in partnership with leading South Kensington institutions, the June 19–27 festival will transform Exhibition Road into a multidisciplinary platform connecting South Asian practitioners with UK cultural collections and spaces under the guidance of six women curators.
Selectors including Financial Times columnist Mel Gerlis and Hugh Bonneville chose Agnieszka Lokaj's River Thames-inspired mixed-media work, Ebbs, from nearly 7,000 entries for the 2026 Discerning Eye exhibition at Mall Galleries.
Kiasma will host the second iteration of British artist Oliver Beer's video opera, an acoustic exploration of France's prehistoric Font-de-Gaume cave featuring eight video projections, a 16-channel composition of ancestral melodies, and sound-generated paintings.
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