"duty free/ airport lounge"
by Aysha Leach
⋅˚₊‧ 𐙚 ‧₊˚ ⋅🏰 this piece is part of PRINCESS, our second digital collection of works. PRINCESS responds to the problematic of modern princessdom through pieces by theorists, writers, and artists. 🏰⋅˚₊‧ 𐙚 ‧₊˚ ⋅
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“duty free/ airport lounge” (2025) (video stills)
The video explores the idea that LA doesn't really exist - a conspiracy theorist approach to looking at the city through the lens and structures of perfume advert tropes.
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Aysha Leach is an artist obsessed with the fringes of film production: illusion, dis-illusion, and the superficiality of the medium. Painted backgrounds become real-life locations behind the lens of a camera, and zombie-eyed superstars come alive under the glare of stage lights. The work functions like an illuminated pool at night in a LA mansion, empty and glowing pale blue. She is interested in how beauty, glamour and aesthetics can be used to create a sense of numbness and nothingness.
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