Toot Yung Gallery announces "Choking Hazard - New World in Vogue", a solo exhibition by Claude Estèbe. 

Fashion dolls are dangerous for children, as stated by the label CHOKING HAZARD ubiquitous on all toy packaging. They can break down into dangerous fragments: shoes, bags, hats, accessories, arms, legs, and heads. These fragments are a metaphor of the industry of beauty focusing exceedingly on isolated parts of the body. In this process the global harmony of the human figure is lost. The new Eve is the plastic daughter of Frankenstein. Claude Estèbe, French scholar in Japanese visual culture, has staged several exhibitions as a curator and photographer in Japan, France and Thailand. He is currently teaching at Paris’ University of Oriental Languages and researching on Japanese monster movies.