Cactus №20

Cactus is a publishing project focusing on fashion, photography and the visual arts. With the belief that the imagery is the most suitable instrument to inspect contemporaneity, Cactus deals with visual culture making seriously fun of it, with a stimulating and provocative attitude.
Cactus Issue 20 features Pompa’s clinical still lifes of Prada Beauty commodities—luxury items stripped of context, hovering between desire and sterile display. The repetition of logos becomes a visual mantra, interrogating beauty branding’s self-referential power.