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Across the Atlantic, stripped bare\u00a0and slapped with paint, three women are holding up a mirror to society\u2019s blemished side.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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From left to right: India Salvor Menuez, Alexandra Marzella and Claire Christerson<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe are not a collective,\u201d states artist India Salvor Menuez firmly.\u201cWe are just a patch in this big beautiful creative community \u2013 imagine it is a blanket \u2013 and we are just this patch that is woven extra tight. Our individual work can be quite different from one another, but so often deals with the same issues.\u201d And just who is \u201cwe\u201d? Meet New York- based collaborators Claire Christerson, Alexandra Marzella and India Salvor Menuez, an overlapping troupe of artists, muses and models.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe might as well be a collective,\u201d Marzella breezes. \u201cBut ultimately, right now, we\u2019re looser than that.\u201d The three girls may not know exactly what they are, but then any Gen Y 20-something who says they do is a liar. Anyway, what self-respecting artist would limit themselves with a definition? Try as you might to label them performance artists, nothing about the girls is clear-cut.<\/p>\n

One of the trio\u2019s communal works entitled Gushing Plea<\/em> \u2014 which showed at Miami\u2019s Art Basel last year \u2014 was a stripped and uncensored commentary on the commodification of the female body, intertwined with the continual fight for reproductive rights in the United States. Sure, it\u2019s a stark, hard-hitting piece concerned entirely with issues that directly affect all women in the U.S., but don\u2019t reduce their creative connection to the fact they all happen to possess a vagina. And don\u2019t close your mind if you\u2019re part of that half of the world that doesn\u2019t have one, either. \u201cMy and Alexandra\u2019s left breast were exposed, we wore skirts and heels, and femme make-up that was later deconstructed,\u201d Menuez explains of Gushing Plea.<\/em> \u201cSo ok, we are working from our cis-white female bodies, but feminism affects everyone, as much as abortion, and artists should be able to make work about these things beyond their gender. When I look at all the pieces we have made together as a trio, I see work that is much less about exploring the \u2018female experience\u2019 and rather investigating the way humans connect.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cGenerally, I try not to use the word \u2018female\u2019 in my vocabulary,\u201d Marzella adds. \u201cI completely work alongside men, we all do… heavily. However, if you mean why have we, as women artists, decided to work together repeatedly, often with the absence of men… I\u2019d say it\u2019s because we just click. Claire and India are extremely open.We share everything. There\u2019s also this whole body-posi thing we\u2019ve got going on.When we get together to work it feels like all societal pressures just fade away. The love and safety that our collaborations provide is what keeps me wanting more.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t know Menuez\u2019s name, you\u2019ll recognise her face from a part in Steven Meisel\u2019s SS16 campaign for Miu Miu, or perhaps from an appearance in the award-winning Amazon series, Transparent<\/em>. Wait for Meneuz\u2019s role in White Girl<\/em> this year, too – a graphic, hedonistic love story aired at Sundance Film Festival that is already dividing critics.<\/p>\n

Marzella might have once existed on the fringes of Internet culture but her candid, daring and often Insta-censored online presence led Calvin Klein to feature her alongside Dev Hynes, Kelela and close friends Petra Collins and photographer Michael Bailey-Gates in the CK One 20th Anniversary campaign last year.<\/p>\n

Christerson, meanwhile, is Bailey-Gates\u2019 full-time video and performance collaborator and their unabashed, unrestricted work raked in headlines from the outset.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have ideas for future collaborative work that is pretty hush right now,\u201d Menuez tells me with a secretive air. I\u2019d hazard a guess that there will be more paint, more nakedness and plenty more political ponderings, but who knows? What\u2019s the best thing about being a woman in 2016, I ask? \u201cPrivilege and independence compared to women in history,\u201d says Marzella. Three forces to be reckoned with.<\/p>\n

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Photography<\/strong>: Michael Bailey Gates<\/p>\n

Words<\/strong>: Lily Walker<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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