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Figures arrive dressed in jerseys, latex stockings, leather belts, ribbons, wigs and butterfly tattoos that glitter under studio light, a cast that parades and multiplies while the camera drifts across them without pause.

Poses stretch into new poses, every gesture exaggerated until it spills over, every costume layered until it swallows the screen, a sequence that keeps producing its own energy. Artificial intelligence feeds this spectacle with an endless appetite, stitching fragments into new surfaces, melting shadows, saturating colors, pushing portraits beyond recognition and yet insisting on display. The figures remain inside this current, performing, collapsing, reforming, always illuminated, always held in the rhythm of a stage that refuses to slow down.

Scenes pile up: nails extended into sculptures of plastic and resin, eyelashes that beat louder than the soundtrack, a teddy bear recycled as prop, pillow, fetish, guardian, a body stretched across the floor wrapped in metallic strings, lips painted into shining ornaments.

Beauty here turns restless, spilling into code, fabric, gloss and skin, a generator of endless decoration. Beauty Arena moves forward without conclusion, its choreography looping through exaggeration and repetition, its voices circling inside a synthetic echo, its images flashing until the eyes surrender. The film unfolds as parade and archive, arena and spectacle, a flow of beauty without exit, a flood of glittering surfaces that refuses to fade.

The latest collaborative project by Laura Banfield and fashion designer Claire Myers is called Performance of Postures. Laura's practice, which is interdisciplinary, examines bodies, materials, and fashion through performance, installations, wearable art objects, and image creation. Claire previously worked for Molly Goddard and then went on to start Lambert, a womenswear label that uses upcycled post-consumer textiles and digital prototyping.

credits

Photographer: Kaede James-Takamoto
Featured designers: Lucinda Babi, Phoebe Pendergast, Love Manifesto, Emily Watson, Veils of Cirrus, Laura Galati, Lambert, Be Right Back, Wackie Ju
Talent: Xandria Fe Vejano, Laura Banfield, Siobhan McKenna
Installation: Laura Banfield
Crew: Laura Galati, James Fletcher, Patrick Anderson, Alice Ramsden, Kim Thompson, Gus Berenyi, Dion Tartaglione, Sian Parany, Betty Liu, Anna Petry, Bridget Petry