Design | 5 hours ago Introducing the January 2021 Issue of Wallpaper* Welcome to our January issue! In the spirit of new beginnings, this issue is dedicated to the Next Generation, the bright minds and budding talents that have captivated and inspired us. Among them is artist Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, who represented her native Zimbabwe at the Venice Biennale in 2019, at the age of 26. Her colourful portraits, often in collage formats that recall childhood cartoons and time spent on Tumblr, offer a vivid commentary on gender, sexuality and identity. Alongside a visit to her London studio, we invited Hwami to create a new painting for our limited-edition cover (available to subscribers). The result, titled Plains of the Christmas Cow, is an enlightening example of how technology has shaped the creative universe of digital natives: ‘Unrelated images borrowed from family archives and from the internet meet at junctions on the canvas,’ Hwami says. ‘The viewer is invited to fill in the gaps, much like how we fill and edit gaps of Instagram or Tumblr accounts.’ Meanwhile, our annual Graduate Directory has been reborn as ‘21 Rising Stars for 2021’. In a typical year, our editors would have scoured the graduate…
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Introducing the January 2021 Issue of Wallpaper*
