Madame Peripetie; The Metamorphosis Series

" A woman enveloped in white fabric wearing delicate, fibrous jewelry, merges into a building/ chair gradually absorbing the features of the construction in order to finally synthesize with its architecture, becoming a new unreachable hyper-constructed object of desire."


The Metamorphosis series is the latest photographic work by London based conceptual artist Sylwana Zybura aka Madame Peripetie. This series was made for the jewelry designer Daisy Feng.

The process of mutation and Kafkaesque transformation of the body to a immortal statue and a mutual dialog between the ethereal jewelry objects, the feminine human figure and the expandable texture of fabric evolve into a futuristic architectonic world.

" The veiled corporal inspirations come from Kevin Francis Gray and his meditative, somber aesthetic.  The architectonic part of the project, focuses primarily on the manipulation of structure and performance of the unexpected inspired by the 'Snakitectural' work of David Arsham."
~~~Sylwana Zybura

Madame Peripetie shares her time between Germany and London.

Metamorphosis / Daisy Feng

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Courtesy Madame Peripetie

Photography / concept: Madame Peripetie

Styling: Stella Gosteva

Designer: Daisy Feng

Assistants: blackshift, Ivan Andriets

Model: Tessa Kuragi

Charlotte Cory's Cartes-de-visite; A Reinterpretation of Victorian photographic calling cards

Discover the extraordinary world of artist, photographer, novelist, journalist and playwright Charlotte Cory. Her photographic collages, skillfully reworking Victorian photographic visiting cards, resemble intriguing short stories, which invite viewers to speculate on the events behind the picture. By creating highly subversive images of human bodies with animal heads, she creates a vision of the nineteenth century, an exciting post-Darwinian alternative universe in which animals are clearly in charge.

Collecting Cartes-de-visite was a craze in Victorian times, called "cartomania." Millions of these faded sepia were produced and are now mostly worthless, found in junk shops everywhere. Cory combines these poignant images with portraits taken of stuffed animals from museums and her own collection. By recycling these dispossessed images and long-dead creatures, she gives them all a new lease of life.

You Animal, You! is an in-depth look at the world of Charlotte Cory. Highly illustrated, this delightful book also contains essays placing the unusual artist's work in context.

Charlotte Cory lives and works in England.

Alice in Red Velveteen Chair

Bognor Baby is currently on exhibit at the Royal Academy 

Colonel Fox is featuring on a new gin bottle, called Colonel Fox's gin

Crocodile, Smile, smile.....

Falstaff

Gentleman Badger

Little Heart

The  Champion

Courtesy of Charlotte Cory

Vegetables and Men; A photographic series by Joëlle Dollé

" The first time I saw salsify was when I received an organic basket! I had never seen lemongrass before, never eaten Jerusalem artichokes, never cooked carrot tops... My lack of culture was quite impressive! It seemed to me that all of these vegetables deserved to be re-introduced. I wanted to bring a fresh perspective to these vegetables that are a part of our everyday life. I became engrossed in photographing them as 'life portraits'."
~~ Joëlle Dollé


Vegetables and Men, an exhibition and a book release.

With Vegetables and Men, French photographer Joëlle Dollé depicts some hundred anonymous and French personalities with vegetables. The exhibition and the book remind us of our relationship with vegetables (food, culture, history, language....). The objective is to find pleasure in the way we view our daily lives, and simplicity in our relationship to life. These photographs challenge our senses and are open to all.

Joëlle Dollé is a photographer and portraitist. She worked as an artistic director before choosing to devote herself to her passion for photography in 1998. She created and designed a collection of children's books entitled 'Histoire de voir' from her photographs of animals. In 2008, Dollé tackled the way illness and handicap are perceived, shedding light on the individual rather than focusing on their physical impairment or their difference. Two great exhibitions were carried out, one with the association AIDES and the other with Toit Citoyen de l'Arche de ls Défense.
Dollé's approach delves into the uniqueness of each individual, but also evokes the unity between all beings. With her series of portraits, she questions our relationship to others and to ourselves and, with Vegetables and Men, our link to nature.

JOËLLE DOLLÉ: Vegetables and Men

Anne Mondet ' sweet potato' © Joëlle Dollé

 Aurelie Cantin ' asparagus' © Joëlle Dollé

 Rodolphe Briand 'mushrooms' © Joëlle Dollé

 Claude Bureaux ' chicory' © Joëlle Dollé

 Alain Baraton 'bay leaves' © Joëlle Dollé

 Nikola Karabatic 'melon' © Joëlle Dollé

 Catherine 'pumpkin' © Joëlle Dollé

 Alain Passard 'horseradish' © Joëlle Dollé

 Michel Onfray 'rutabaga' © Joëlle Dollé

 Jerome Guyot 'tomatoes' © Joëlle Dollé

Courtesy of the artist 

Vegetables and Men, Portraits by Joëlle Dollé 

On exhibit at Versailles, Potager du Roi

June 24 - September 9, 2012
Paris, Chai de Bercy
October 1st - December 31, 2012

The book is published by Éditions du Chêne

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Babylonstoren Revisited

Nature is at its best at Babylonstoren. With its new additions this restored 18th century Cape Dutch farm  located in the heart of the Cape Winelands around Cape Town South Africa, offers plenty to do for your entire family.

One of the biggest advantage when staying over at Babylonstoren is that everything you eat or taste can be purchased in their Tasting area / Farm shop.

The Babylonstoren garden contains over 300 varieties of edible plants. Fruit and veggies are harvested year round and use in their restaurant. Meals are served anywhere on the farm, depending on the season and the weather.

Babylonstoren's new additions include a wine shop, featuring their own wine, but also those of the 28 cellars situated around the slopes of the Simonsberg Mountains. They also have a delicatessen specializing in a 'charcuterie' where you can buy a variety of meats, a cheese room full of handcrafted cheeses, and to top it all, a bakery producing artisan breads, baked in a wood fire oven.

And last a teahouse, located under old oak trees at the back of the Babylonstoren garden. The glasshouse - tearoom contains exotic granadillas, ginger, cardamon, pineapples, dragon fruit, vanilla, guavadellas, a baobab tree, and much more. Decorated with a collection of tables and colorful Luxembourg chairs, the teahouse's light menu focuses on seasonal produce from the garden.

Wine Tasting Room

Charcuterie and Cheese shop

 Bakery

 Greenhouse / Teahouse

 Freshly picked

 Fruit and vegetable garden

 Large-scale nests / Tree houses

 Babel restaurant and herb garden

 Cottages / accommodations

Courtesy of Babylonstoren