M.I.A.’s friends and collaborators explore the radical impact of the pop provocateur’s visual work
is “basically a human version of the internet”. The fashion stylist and new-rave architect had a hand in many of the looks that came to define the artist born Maya Arulpragasam’s early years, a pop smorgasbord blending insurrectionary street style, riotous colour and a whole menagerie of mismatching animal prints.
“A lot of the art [we were exposed to at college] ended up in obscure galleries getting seen by boujie people with champagne glasses,” says Loveridge, a graphic designer who worked with M.I.A. on “two and a half” of her album covers . “It was like, ‘Nobody knows about this work, nobody’s gonna remember it.’ Whereas in [pop] culture there were things thatmean something to us, as a gay kid growing up in the suburbs and a Sri Lankan kid on a council estate.
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