I must admit there are things not on 'The List' that I have ambitions to do in London and one of them is to see as many exhibitions as I can to build on my recent interest in the cultural aspects of life. I also love to discover cute venues/shops/cafes that make London unique from other cities in the world.
On this particular sunny (yes I say sunny) Saturday in London I decided to venture out and see an exhibition I had read about in Harper's Bazaar.
The article had intrigued me as it described an artist who had put together a collection of work using her own human hair as a way of symbolising her feelings about the events in her childhood.
Firstly the exhibition was easy to miss as it was featured in a tiny hall in the middle of a busy pub and cafe in Soho- not your usual 3 blocks worth of gallery space! However once inside I found the exhibition mesmerising and disturbing at the same time.
As you can see from the picture she has cut and glued her hair together so many times over the years that it literally fills 3 flights of stairs.
In addition to this piece there were mutliple ornaments/sculptures that had more hair wound around it, a life like doll created in her image and a strange movie about a little girl who turns into a porcelian doll. I would like to consider myself as a cultural person but this was a little far out for me.
After the exhibition I continued to wander around Soho and I stumbled upon one of the greatest shops I have been into in London. A vintage magazine store!!!!! As I mentioned yesterday I love Kylie and have tried to collect every magazine she has featured in for the past 10 years. This shop was heaven and has magazines from the 1950's right through to the 2000's. Magazines instore include Vogue, Playboy, Rolling Stone etc, you name it, they have it! I had to leave quickly before I spent a weeks wage on magazines.
This was a trully unique and interesting day in London and it showed me one of the reasons why I wanted to move here in the first place!
This lovely adventure was topped off with a trip to Notting Hill on the Sunday for another tasty coffee at the Coffee Plant (note this place attracts model/arty/cool types of people) and an afternoon of red wine whilst watching Sex and the City- what better way to enjoy a lazy weekend!
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