#433: ARIANA PAPADEMETROPOULOS
🕵️ Jay J Armes, 🧥 Wearing a coat with nothing underneath, 🐟 Angler Fish Mating, and more.
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Cool people like cool things, which is why we asked Ariana Papademetropoulos to share a taste of her taste on Perfectly Imperfect.
Ariana Papademetropoulos is a Los Angeles/Rome/Paris-based artist best known for her awe-inspiring surrealist paintings. Ariana has been featured in publications including Interview Magazine, Dazed, and Document Journal, and she collaborated with Gucci on a fotonovella called A Love Story. Back in 2022, her solo show Baby Alone in Babylon featured a collection of magnificent large-scale unicorn paintings at NYC’s Vito Schnabel Gallery, and last year she created a visual art piece titled A Mon Seul Désir as part of the project “Louvre Looks,” where 20 contemporary artists were invited to create a video inside of the legendary museum. If you’re in Paris you can currently see her work at a group show titled Re-enchantment at Thaddeaus Ropac Gallery. Lucky for us, Ariana is here to tell us what she’s been into.
Without further ado
Ariana Papademetropoulos (instagram)
🕵️ Jay j armes
He was known as the first real life superhero, and Marlon Brandos private investigator . When he was a child his hands blew off in an accident - so he had two metal claws to replace them . With these claws he would hold guns , fight crime , and caress his pet lions. He is the guy Brando hired in Tahiti when his son went missing and he succeeded in finding him. He is still alive in Florida , and in his home he has a special button in his office that opens a secret door . I love him .
🧥 Wearing a coat with nothing underneath
This is a great idea when you don’t have the mental capacity to pick and outfit but you want to look put together . Just put on an expensive coat and you’re good to go . I love having my hair blow dried , nice earrings and an expensive coat and having people think I’m sophisticated. It’s exciting to know you could flash and commit a crime at any moment . Every time I do it I swear , people treat me different , ask me out on dates , smile at me , give me things for free. Just don’t do it at the airport as I did in once before as - they will ask you to take your coat off .
🐟 Angler fish mating
It is so rare for angler fish to find one another in the deep abyss , but when a male finds a female, the male attaches himself to her. Slowly … he morphs into her .. losing his eyes .. his mouth .. and everything else that resembles being a fish. He fuses into her until there’s nothing of him left . There is something horrifying but also romantic about it .
One of my favorite recent discoveries , the psychic photographer Ted serios . He would concentrate on a memory and imprint his memories onto polaroid film ( as it was instant and no alteration could be make later in lab ) and no one has been able to prove that his photographs are not in fact real . The imperfections such as words on signs being spelled wrong , is what makes it impossible to prove they aren’t real . They are photos of memories , blurry and inaccurate , as a memory would be. Ted was famous in the 1970’s and would perform his psychic photography on live television , but had to get absolutely hammered to be in the right mental state to do so . And he is Greek so , I like him even more.
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