The next SHOWstudio Shop exhibition opens to the public on Friday 23 March 2012. Titled provocatively - and philosophically - Selling Sex, this exhibition features only female artists and examines their unique relationships to sex and the female nude. We like to believe today that the war of the sexes is less a battle and more sophisticated dialogue. However, there remain only three industries in which women earn more money than men - pornography, prostitution and modelling. What does that tell us? That the majority of images we see of women are created by men. And that we live in a society where man's vision of the world continues to dominate. Selling Sex therefore decides to turn this 'convention' on its head, to offer an exhibition made up exclusively of women artists - including Kim Mccarthy, Sarah Lucas, Christiana Soulou and Liz Cohen - looking at sex and nudity, in effect examining a woman's version of a woman. Does it differ from a man’s? Is an image of a nude woman empowered in the hand's of a female artist? Does it resist traditionally-constructed gender roles? Does it mock a voyeuristic male gaze? Or, do we see yet more examples of the female constantly diverting her own eye, facilitating her status as the object to be looked at versus ever being the subject doing the looking? Does this objectification play out in the female subject, for the woman artist, even today?

Selling Sex opens at SHOWstudio Shop, 1-9 Bruton Place W1 on Friday 23 March 2012

Those of you who missed the live stream of Kate Tempest's inspirational poetry and rap performance earlier this month can now enjoy her set via our exclusive on-demand footage as part of the In Your Face: Music series. Tempest's lyrical offerings follow in the footsteps of Gary Numan, Cerebral Ballzy, o F F Love, Vula, and Ladyhawke, all of whom have allowed SHOWstudio a unique glimpse of their musical talent. The film of Tempest's performance arrives in sync with the tour of her first play Wasted as well as the release of her debut album Balance and poetry book Everything Speaks in its Own Way.

Designers have ruled supreme this week on Fashion Mix, with Mugler Creative Director Nicola Formichetti playing DJ on Monday, followed by London-based design duo Void of Course who will offer up their tracks on Friday. Both mixes are full of surprises. Given his reputation as the embodiment of the sartorial zeitgeist Formichetti's mix shockingly shuns popular chart hits, opting instead for Philip Glass's ever-minimal thirties compositions. Similarly you would be forgiven for presuming that Chris Sutton and Sean-Anthony Moran of Void of Course would opt for dark, provocative tunes to match the sinister nature of some of their creations. But, instead the pair offer up a selection worthy of the cheesiest nightclub, including camp classics from the likes of Cyndi Lauper and Celine Dion. Tune into Fashion Mix this week to get a unique and unpredictable view into their musical minds.