Whether it’s Kim Kardashian donning her Skims against the backdrop of a vintage L.A. pool, or a blonde Alexa Demie tanning beneath the Hollywood sign, artist Nadia Lee Cohen’s work consistently tells a thought-provoking story.
Despite these hardback works, Cohen says her kind of storytelling was never meant to remain on paper. And, now, for the first time ever, these pieces are on view at the artist’s large-scale solo exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in Los Angeles,The show is, in a word, an experience. One of her recurring characters, “Carole” manifests as a wax figure on a lawn chair; she seems to have spent too much time in the L.A. sun , as she is completed melted and disfigured.
This was the first opportunity I had to show the work in a three-dimensional way, where people could experience isolated physical forms of the objects, characters, and Los Angeles architecture—[all of] which influenced me in the first place. I spoke with my art director, Brittany Porter, about the viewer being able to exist in that fictional yet familiar world.
Let’s talk about the sculptures and setups throughout the show. Who is this person absolutely obliterated on the lawn chair?She is one of the models from the book “Women,” where she is posing in the Valley at golden hour, 2 minutes before the sun went down.
I didn’t stay firmly in the fashion world as I’m not all that interested in shooting the current trends or whether a coat is sitting right. I prefer everything in the photograph to make sense of the story I'm trying to tell, which is probably the reason I started those personal book projects and moved towards filmmaking.
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