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THE SALON 2024

by NADA & The Community

October 17—20, 2024

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Janina Zais

Don't Grow Old It's A Trap

Goswell Road is proud to be invited to take part in the first edition of The Salon by NADA & The Community, hosting a solo booth with German artist, Janina Zais.

For the fair, Janina presents paintings for the first time alongside her more well-known personal work with hair and body painting. 

Bio: Janina Zais works as an international Hair and Makeup artist, with 16 years of experience and is based in London and Berlin. She has been selected twice for the New waves creatives / British Fashion Awards 2020 & 2023 as one of 50 most influential artists in the fashion industry. She specializes in distinctive hair designs, wigs, contemporary make-up looks and body painting. She has collaborated with photographers Nick Knight, and Gordon von Steiner and musicians like Troy Sivan, Eartheater, Tame Impala, Tove Lo and many more. She regularly works for publications such as Vogue, I-D, Paper-magazine, Office, Replica, Dazed and King Kong.In 2020 she worked as a Hair and Make-up artist on the film 'Triangle of Sadness' (directed by Ruben Östlund) which was awarded the Cannes Palme d'Or and nominated for the Oscars.

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A Special Project in the Cafeteria

Archie Chekatouski

You can do so much more with a chair than you can with a painting!

The Salon by NADA and The Community collaborate with the Paris-based artist-run space, Goswell Road, to present a special project with Archie Chekatouski (b. 1996 in Minsk, Belarus), in the cafeteria. Following Chekatouski’s recent solo show at Goswell Road, ‘You can do so much more with a chair than you can with a painting?’, they propose setting his chair paintings free from the gallery environment and letting them live their lives as chairs in our cafeteria.

“His works are … a kind of humorous debasement of the pretensions of high art … Franz West chairs, made to be social, adaptable, are extended by being recreated using IKEA furniture. Archie’s work is all about these in-betweens: pretentious and demotic, art historical and everyday, homage and parody, researched and yet dumbly copied, labour intensive but lazy - they are both at once and therefore neither.” Paul Clinton, exhibition text extract: ‘You can do so much more with a chair than you can with a painting?’

Please feel free to sit on the art.

Bio: Archie Chekatouski (b. 1996 in Minsk, Belarus) lives and works in Paris. His works are touchingly silly and beautifully simple.