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Constellation

Pink subversions

Created by Laura Castagnini

Featured in this constellation

The Dark Current

Barbie

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

Legally blonde

The Color of Pomegranates

Pink dominates Angela Tiatia's The Dark Current. The artist describes this particular colour as “artificial”, “unapologetic” and “pulsating with feminine energy”. In Tiatia's Sāmoan heritage “there is a brashness in the use of colour. I really wanted to embody that.”

The Dark Current → Barbie