Princesses and Saints: Justyna Koeke

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Justyna Koeke transforms children's fantasies into wearable sculptures,brought to life on the bodiesof ladies of advanced years. The publication presents the entire project:rom the child-like naive drawings, via photographs of the dressed-upmodels before the sterile backdrop of their retirement home, to fun-lovingfashion shows an equally humorous and critical approach to the correlationof childhood dreams and the reality of getting older, in which theunsolved issues of an increasingly ageing society invariably resonate.

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Prof Dr Nils Buttner teaches art history at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Stuttgart. Sonja Eismann is a journalist as well as founder and editor of Missy Magazine. Prof Dr Anne Soll teaches modern art with the focus on cultural and gender studies at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum.