Ruby Aldridge | Miles Aldridge | Vogue Italia October 2011 | ‘Home Chic’

The Miles Aldridge exhibit ‘I Only Want You To Love Me has opened at London’s Somerset House through September 29, 2013. The exhibit is the largest exhibition of Aldridge’s work to date and includes not only large-scale photographic prints documenting his career, but also accompanying hand-drawn story-boards, drawings, polaroids, and magazines. The result is insights into Aldridge’s point of view and process.

Somerset House writes:

Women and colour are Aldridge’s twin obsessions. His work is filled with glamorous, beautiful women from dazed housewives and decadent beauties to sunbathing sexpots and ecstatic Virgins. Luscious colours dazzle from every image – blood red ketchup splashes against a black and white floor; a mouth drips with gold; egg yolk oozes across a plate. But the technicolour dream world of seemingly perfect women with blank expressions belies a deeper sense of disturbance and neurosis. Look more closely and there is silent screaming, a head pushed down on a bed, a face covered in polythene, a woman pushing an empty swing.

AOC shares some of Aldridge’s artistry. All of our Miles Aldridge editorials are here.