Bazaar Pink - Endless

In Endless Bazaar, the artist continues his sharp interrogation of consumer culture through the glossy lens of the fashion magazine. Playing the role of both editor and agitator, Endless constructs a pseudo-cover using real, absurd, and contradictory headlines sourced from contemporary lifestyle and tabloid publications—snippets of societal obsession arranged into a new kind of archive.

The central figure—a feminised version of the original Crotch Grab pose—borrows the silhouette of 90s Cindy Crawford-era supermodeldom. She stands topless, defiant, draped in symbols of commodified desire and dressed in counterfeit Calvin underwear. Her pose deliberately echoes both Endless’ own subversion of the iconic Mark Wahlberg Calvin Klein campaign and the classical stance of Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus—one arm across the chest, the other hand modestly positioned at the pelvis.

This reference to Botticelli adds a deeper layer of art historical commentary: where the Renaissance Venus was a symbol of divine beauty and purity emerging into the world, Endless’ Venus is fully formed by the forces of media, branding, and body politics. She isn’t born from a shell, but from the algorithm. This linking of poses—Wahlberg’s sexualised masculinity, Botticelli’s idealised femininity, and Endless’ hyper-aware remix—shows how visual language is recycled to reinforce and distort cultural ideals.

Against a Barbie-pink backdrop graffitied with slogans like “SELFIE LOVE,” “VEGAN BRO,” and “SEX PIXEL,” the image becomes overloaded with contradiction. Endless’ careful layering of these headlines mimics the dissonance of modern media—where Botox, self-love, plant-based lifestyles, and body anxiety all share a front page. It’s both satire and documentary: an homage to the absurd beauty rituals we perform to stay relevant, loved, or simply seen.

The magazine format, often dismissed as ephemera, is here treated like fine art—framed and monumentalised, but still fragile. Endless literally spray-paints the word FRAGILE over the surface like a warning: beneath the digital gloss and curated identities, something human remains.