When you think of Tim Walker, you think of unbridled fantasy. This show delivers that.
, you think of unbridled fantasy. You think of women with too-long legs running through too-green fields, of kabuki make-up and dilated pupils. But beyond the fantasy, what’s less discussed is how Walker reimagines art and cultural history to offer a specific new perspective on right-now.. Walker returned to the original illustrations of Lewis Carroll’s book, and with collaborator Edward Enninful cast Sudanese-Australian model Duckie Thot as Alice — far from the image of Disney’s blonde bumpkin.
A 16th century painting of Krishna and Indra inspires a glittery, jewel-toned shoot with Indian model Radhika Nair, while “Pen & Ink” re-animates the spidery, subversive illustrations of Aubrey Beardsley. Meanwhile, Tilda Swinton embodies the uncompromising poet Edith Sitwell with the assured shape-shifting that she brought to her embodiment of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.
“These pictures are a celebration of age and a celebration of defiance,” Walker says of Swinton’s shoot in the V&A’s accompanying exhibition catalogue. “Tilda manifested Edith Sitwell’s striking weirdness and her belief in her weirdness. It’s such a positive thing to be yourself and embrace your difference. “Why not be oneself?” Amen.ahead of the exhibition’s opening this month, as well as a selection of his most singular work from the past two decades.
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