New York-based artist Silvia Prada combines luxury lipsticks with 1970s nudes for Wallpaper’s September 2023 issue
They are also the recurring features of her work . Prada is best known for her hyper-realistic pencil sketches and collages of pop-culture images, from Calvin Klein ads to Madonna album covers, all of which coalesce to form her ‘lexicon as a queer female artist’.
She started building that lexicon in 1980s León, Spain, where she grew up hanging around the men’s hair salon that her family owned, poring over the magazines left for customers. Those images are what inspired her interest in art and, as Prada explains, ‘it really formed my interest in the aesthetics of androgyny. People like Boy George, Madonna, all of these gender blender personas were really interesting to me.
‘For me it's almost political,’ Prada says of her work. ‘It makes people think about where the images they are consuming right now are coming from. For instance, a Calvin Klein ad from the 1990s, like that for One [perfume], was already queer without calling it queer. So I feel like the message was way more strong in the 1990s and it feels much more powerful to me than a brand trying to put together a Pride campaign now.
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