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Part of the installation "A kind of display". "A kind of display" is a collection of images about beards, which are confronted and processed in order to address a spectrum of social issues, some directly political in motive, some vaguely utopian and some chronicling specific historical events. The project started when we found some articles about beard implants in Turkey, a country where such practice is common among adult males, because mustaches are a symbol of a social status. The initial interest for this combination of aesthetic surgery and cultural values became a structured project when we compared it with the fashion trend that spread out in the West: effectively, beard is a common character among human beings (stressed in male individuals), the appearance or disappearance of which marks all human history and crosses different cultures. It has always been subjected to a shifting range of cultural values, epitomizing wisdom, virility, strength, health, and more often becoming the main feature of archetypical figures, like the enemy or the warrior. "A kind of display" is conceived as an installation and a performance in which the exhibited objects are different derivations of the photographic process, deeply connected with the possibilities and the everyday practices made available by the developments of this mean of expression. - The Cool Couple, official site

"On New Italian Photography", VIASATERNA, Milano, 2016.
"A kind of display", Les rencontres de la photographie, Arles, 2015.

AA.VV., VEDRINE, Hubert, curated by, "Les rencontres de la photographie. Arles 2015", Arles, 2015, p. 284- 287. Available online at www.issuu.com, 2015
issuu.com/lesrencontresdelaphotographiearles/docs/2015_arles-catalogue-issu-extract_f

Sitography: FANTOM, "Focus on: The Cool Couple for 2016 – On New Italian Photography", fantomeditions, 7 luglio 2016.
www.fantomprojects.org/2016-on-new-italian-photography-the-cool-couple/

THE COOL COUPLE, "A kind of display (2015 – ongoing)", thecoolcouple,
thecoolcouple.co.uk/what-we-do/a-kind-of-display-2015-ongoing/

THE COOL COUPLE, "The cool couple. Portfolio. A kind of display (2015) / Approximation to the west (2013-2015) / Cool people love poodles (2014) / The fuffy wipe case (2013) / The third chimpanzee (2012 – 2014)", careof.
www.careof.org/content/2-progetti/30-2016/20160314-artevisione-lab/the-cool-couple_portfolio_av2016.pdf

VIASATERNA, "The cool couple", viasaterna.
www.viasaterna.com/author/the-cool-couple/#