- Venue
- Karin Janssen Project Space
- Starts
- Friday, April 12, 2013
- Ends
- Sunday, April 21, 2013
- Address
- 213 Well Street E9 6QU
- Location
Group show with Eliza Bennett, Antony Crossfield, Chiho Iwase, Karin Janssen, Edith Meijering. RAW SKIN challenges the dualistic view that the body is merely a seat for the mind, a shell which, with willpower and discipline, can be moulded into a perfect shape, something that we have influence over. This idea denies the reality of our living bodies, our corporeality. The exhibition RAW SKIN aims to research what happens when internal emotions start bleeding into the body, changing, morphing, transforming and exploding it, causing it to clash with the external world around it. Bringing together the work of five contemporary artists RAW SKIN investigates the body in visual arts, but rather than approaching as an observer, viewing it as an object from the outside, the show aims to look at the body as a vehicle for expression of an internal emotional world. The artists, each in their own way, rethink the relationship between depth and surface, between inside and outside, between self and other and between mind and body. With an emphasis on bodily transformation and physical distortion and with confrontational works that encourage a visceral response as well as an intellectual one this exhibition aims to question traditional conceptions of corporeality and our understanding of the body.
