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El Hunt

Marika Hackman: how a "brush with death" shaped the indie singer's new album Big Sigh

Midway through Sarah Lucus’ Happy Gas exhibition ‒ a retrospective feast of smutty visual puns, phallic cigars, and strangely contorted bodies made out of taut, stuffed stockings ‒ Marika Hackman takes a liking to one of the artist’s more recent sculptures, Slag. 

“That’s how I feel most days,” she quips, taking in the 2022 piece, a headless grey body, draped half-seductively across a wooden chair. “Minus the high heels”.

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