- Venue
- Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery
- Starts
- Saturday, March 15, 2008
- Ends
- Sunday, May 4, 2008
- Address
- Castle Street, Carlisle, Cumbria. CA3 8TP
- Location
- North West England
‘Body Space' is a new major Tullie House exhibition exploring the use and representation of clothing in contemporary art practice through work by ten leading contemporary artists including Caroline Broadhead, Rebecca Horn and Yinka Shonibare MBE.‘Body Space' investigates the relationship between dress and personal identity including ideas around gender, sexuality, normalcy, culture, status, revelation versus concealment as well as dress used as an extension of the body or psyche. The use of clothing in art became popular in the late sixties and early seventies with the rise of feminism and the Women's Movement. Today, clothing continues to be used to great effect by artists to explore notions of femininity. Interspersed with the contemporary work, Tullie House presents a selection of 18th and 19th century costumes from the museum's permanent collection, including corsetry. Garments designed and worn to sculpt the body into the shape desired at that time, these pieces reflect themes explored within the exhibition around constriction, extension, body image and alteration.
