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The human figure is often used to tell stories, symbolize existence, and represent the human condition. Featuring works from RAM鈥檚 collection, RAM Showcase: Bodies reflects people鈥檚 desire to study, analyze, and respond to the human body as form and content. Made from clay or washi paper, the works included in this exhibition underscore the enduring artistic interest in the body as subject.

All of the works in this exhibition were made by artists of color鈥攁 significant fact that adds layers to the subject matter and ways it is depicted. This distinction is critical for some contemporary artists of color, as their work adds narratives to art histories that generally marginalized or excluded them.

Individually, the artists represented in RAM Showcase: Bodies explore a wide range of issues, including social and cultural dynamics, the sensual body, emotions, the connection between human beings and animals, history, and relationships between duality and otherness. Sometimes self-portraits, sometimes not, the subjects portrayed are envisioned or recorded through flat, drawn images or sculpted forms and reflect vibrant voices and engaging perspectives.