Josphine Meckseper’s photographs subtly infuse lifestyle ideals with an incitement to revolutionary violence. Using the format of fashion magazines, Meckseper examines how cultural information and its inherent values are packaged and merchandised: beauty, capitalism, and glamour are laid bare and magnified as vacuous imagery transparently revealing their social, political, and economic realities. In Pyromaniac 2, Meckseper’s model is posed with lit match perched between her lips, an emblem of commodified desire transformed to an impending powder keg explosion.