Danish artist Nadia Plesner made headlines in 2007 with a Louis Vuitton handbag, a starving Darfurian and a Chihuahua. Aiming to challenge the way we percieve images, and hoping to catch the attention of the star-obsessed mainstream media circus, Plesner painted a starving Darfur kid with a Paris Hilton puppy and a Louis Vuitton bag. She called the piece Simple Living and sold it on t-shirts and posters. But the French fashion giant didn’t see the grand statement of Nadia’s emotive satire. Instead, they launched a legal battle to have Simple Living permanently struck from the record – even though all proceeds went straight to the charity Divest for Darfur. In January 2011, Nadia launched her debut solo show, Intervention, at the Odd Fellow Palace in Copenhagen. The show includes a reinterpretation of Picasso’s Guernica entitled Darfurnica. Again, this time to reclaim her freedom of expression, Nadia re-included the controversial Simple Living image. And again, Louis Vuitton responded with hard-line legal action. Click here for the full interview…