And now for a photo of Rihanna posing in front of an enormous sculpture of Rihanna

Sometimes life imitates art. Sometimes art imitates life. Sometimes life poses in front of the art that’s imitating that very same life, and therein lies the best art of all. (I took an art history class once; you can trust me.)

In June, Juan Sebastián Peláez’s “Ewaipanoma (Rihanna)”—part of the artist’s series of enormous photo cutouts of headless celebrities with faces superimposed on their chests—was unveiled at the Berlin Bienniale for Contemporary Art. Today, Rihanna (the real-life, flesh-and-blood Rihanna, that is) visited her towering two-dimensional twin and documented their fateful meeting on Snapchat.

One Rihanna was never enough.

Molly Fitzpatrick is senior editor of Fusion’s Pop & Culture section. Her interests include movies about movies, TV shows about TV shows, and movies about TV shows, but not so much TV shows about movies.

 
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