Skin Garden: Reconsider Flesh

Curated by Viv Qiu and Salomé Chatriot

Reconsider Flesh is a non-chronological, anti-categorical spectrum of digital bodies. This breathing sculpture garden houses virtual representations of skin, flesh, and bone inside a breathing, organic grotto sculpted by Salomé Chatriot. Move through as you navigate the walls Salomé sculpted by capturing data from measuring breathing.

These bodies are layered with Bella Baguena's distorted readings of Gordon Hall's Why I Don't Talk about 'The Body', a polemic on the turn-of-phrase "The Body" and the damaging effects of such language in the english-speaking art world. This space is an embodiment of the multiplicity of flesh, one that Gordon states is too often substituted with the singular verbiage: "The Body." Drawing from her shared experience of "having" a 'trans body,' as it were, Bella Baguena sounds out Gordon's theory inside this fleshy assemblage.

Reconsider Flesh carves out a space for just some of the bodies excluded when multitudes are reduced to a monolith.

Oh, and don't forget to look up.

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