ARTISTS
Life and Limbs
25 Sep, 2019 - 29 Dec, 2019
"Life and limbs" is the fourth exhibition in Swiss Institute鈥檚 Architecture and Design Series, curated by Austrian artist Anna-Sophie Berger. Considering corporeality as a primary concern for design, Berger here assembles a group of works that register the body as a habitat that can be imaginatively stretched, altered, modified, adorned, replicated or destroyed. Including works from a variety of disciplines, movements and periods, Berger takes as a starting point two designs for necklaces by the Swiss surrealist Meret Oppenheim: one resembling a baby鈥檚 legs wrapped around a neck, and the other featuring a pendant with a grinning toothy mouth smoking a cigarette, designed to hang at the softest part of the throat. Combining morbid humor with glee, vulnerability with threat, life with limbs, the drawings represent prevailing concerns within Berger鈥檚 art practice and the constellation of works in this exhibition.
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"Life and limbs" is the fourth exhibition in Swiss Institute鈥檚 Architecture and Design Series, curated by Austrian artist Anna-Sophie Berger. Considering corporeality as a primary concern for design, Berger here assembles a group of works that register the body as a habitat that can be imaginatively stretched, altered, modified, adorned, replicated or destroyed. Including works from a variety of disciplines, movements and periods, Berger takes as a starting point two designs for necklaces by the Swiss surrealist Meret Oppenheim: one resembling a baby鈥檚 legs wrapped around a neck, and the other featuring a pendant with a grinning toothy mouth smoking a cigarette, designed to hang at the softest part of the throat. Combining morbid humor with glee, vulnerability with threat, life with limbs, the drawings represent prevailing concerns within Berger鈥檚 art practice and the constellation of works in this exhibition.
Artists on show
- Benjamin Hirte
- Birgit Jurgenssen
- Cobra
- Diamond Antoinette Stingily
- Ebecho Muslimova
- Gina Folly
- Günter Brus
- Heimo Zobernig
- Kayode Ojo
- Lucia Elena Prusa
- Lutz Bacher
- Lyle Ashton Harris
- Madeline Gins
- Manfred Deix
- Marc Kokopeli
- Marija Tav膷ar
- Meret Oppenheim
- Moyra Davey
- Nathaniel Goldberg
- Nicolas de Larmessin IV
- Rosemarie Trockel
- Sarah Charlesworth
- Till Megerle
- Tobias Madison
- Walter Pichler
Contact details
Sunday
12:00 - 6:00 PM
Wednesday - Saturday
12:00 - 6:00 PM
38 St Marks Pl, East Village New York, NY, USA 10003
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