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Massimo Villa Torre rossa e cavolaie oil on canvas 70x80cm

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Trevante Rhodes in Bird Box (2018)

Samira Abbassy’s collage shows a female figure, her hair raised and her internal organs revealed in X-ray fashion. Her expression conveys what Abbassy describes as a state of rapture, as if in a meditative trance. Nearby are trees inhabited by colourful birds, with some of their patterns derived from Indian textile blocks. Inspired by ‘The Conference of Birds’, a 12th-century verse by the Persian poet Farid Al-Din Attar, Abbassy’s work depicts the physical and spiritual elements of human existence.

Photos of London’s black beauty pageants in the 50s

White Tulips Charles Rennie Mackintosh c.1915