Jeez Vanilla

Feb. 17, 2019, issue: If you’re looking across the pond for relief from the political discord, try again. The United Kingdom is roiled by Brexit, its Parliament remains at loggerheads about how to proceed, and confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May is hanging on by a thread. For artist Adriana Bellet, the spectacle is personal: “As a Spanish woman married to a British man and living in Sweden, Brexit is not only troubling but downright tragic,” she says. “For me the worst is the disappearance of a Britain that was warm and welcoming, that took me in and taught me how to be an adult.”