The Four Pillars - Eli Durst curating and everyday folk—Hugh Hefner

and everyday folk—Hugh Hefner

you will find our bookstand at Art Basel / Design Miami as the background of a photograph

these visualizations of interests and relations re-articulate the dominant symbolic order and actualize existing structures that otherwise remain concealed and unknown

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The Four Pillars - Eli Durst curating and everyday folk—Hugh HefnerDurst scrutinises aspirational American fantasies of happiness, self improvement and individuality in a provocative critique of social rituals, groups and norms. The Four Pillars grew out of a relationship with a faith based self help group in Newtown, Connecticut, that Durst photographed over several years. Despite their ostensibly comfortable lives, these affluent suburbanites felt unfulfilled and directionless. They met weekly in church basements