Lorenza Longhi: World of Yum Yum, 2024

Lorenza Longhi: World of Yum Yum, 2024

Brooklyn Rail

The exhibition takes its title, World of Yum Yum, from the essay “Glamour Wounds” by Rhonda Lieberman, in which the phrase is given as a moniker to the Chanel boutique where the writer suffers a vivid anxiety attack. At Swiss Institute, Longhi takes up this figure of the commodity’s indifferent and controlling gaze, but instead of resigning the viewer to the cheap illusions that fuel paranoid consumption.

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