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Saturday, 8 June 2019

Chemical X’s protest against poverty: ‘Chanel’ tents on LA’s Skid Row

British artist says his street project highlights gulf between wealth and poverty

He once made a £1m life-size sculpture of supermodel Cara Delevingne out of 7,000 ecstasy pills, to draw attention to the drug’s impact on popular culture.

Now the anonymous British artist Chemical X is courting controversy again after erecting a row of tents in Los Angeles’s homeless district, Skid Row, each carrying the logo and branding of the many luxury labels that can be found just over 10 miles away in the Beverly Hills shopping strip of Rodeo Drive.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2MAHkZ8

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