Emma Stern's 'Hell is Hot' Turns Internet Fetish Into High Art

New York-based artist Emma Stern unveiled her latest solo exhibition, Hell is Hot, at Almine Rech's Paris outpost. Expanding her cast of latex-slick avatars, this new body of work offer a new lens for embodiment, desire and perversion, with an off-kilter brand of feminism, one of the Crash (1996) variety. Between all its adorable "bunny-eared" and "mermaid-tailed" monsters, Stern captures the collision of fantasy and flesh in all its dreamy, disarming intensity.The artist's process begins in 3D ...