Iris van Herpen bends perceptions of femininity with installations for Swarovski
Visitors to Vienna’s Kärntner Straße may be taken aback by the larger-than-life, seemingly breathing and dreaming female head positioned front-and-centre outside the Swarovski Kristallwelten store. Such hyperrealistic art depicting the human form
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