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Written, Directed, and Edited by Kalup Linzy

Kalup Linzy’s “Sampled and LeftOva” & “Fuck U” for Proenza Schouler

On the Occasion of Pitti W-Nº4. A Project of Fondazione Pitti Discovery. Produced by Art Production Fund.

Make up by Aidan Keopg and Bryan Campbell for MAC.

In a multidisciplinary practice that includes videos, performances and music, Linzy creates satirical narratives inspired by television soap operas, telenovelas and Hollywood melodramas. He performs, most often in drag, in a series of memorable recurring roles. The artist serves as writer, composer, director, cinematographer, editor, and actor—and, in a distinctive strategy, also voices and overdubs the dialogue of multiple characters. At once comic, raunchy and poignant, Linzy’s unique narrative music and videos fuse dramatic intensity with melodramatic irony.