ARTISTS
Something soft
Touching on ideas of seduction, sensuality and transgression, 鈥楽omething soft鈥� delves into the shifting grounds between sex and intimacy. The exhibition intersects the works of Julie B茅na, Susie Green, Zoe Williams and Deniz 脺nal, to consider how objects facilitate intimacy and the importance of trust and solidarity. While coming from female perspectives 鈥楽omething soft鈥� subverts the conflation of softness with femininity鈥� reclaiming tenderness as something which exists beyond gendered norms.
The artists鈥� spatial interventions, sound works, performances, video and sculpture, flirt with sexual intimacy, power exchange, consensual pain, bodily smells or liquids, bondage and ritual. But rather than sensationalising sexual pleasure, 鈥楽omething soft鈥� foregrounds moments ofinteraction 鈥� touch, spaces between communication, the things which go unsaid 鈥� to which the sex act itself can be seen as a biproduct.
As a prelude to 鈥楽omething soft鈥� Deniz 脺nal will perform 鈥楥haracters of Control鈥� with Amy Gwatkin and Nadja Voorham at Kunstraum on Saturday 6 April (7pm) with the exhibition opening on Friday 12 April (6.30鈥�9pm).
鈥楽omething soft鈥� is the first of Kunstraum鈥檚 exhibitions curated by Co-Director Hannah Conroy, and the first group exhibition here since 2015. It will be accompanied by an events programme reflecting on wider questions of sex, eroticism and flirtation, with contributions by Camille Brechignac, Thomas Cuckle and Camille Houz茅.
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Touching on ideas of seduction, sensuality and transgression, 鈥楽omething soft鈥� delves into the shifting grounds between sex and intimacy. The exhibition intersects the works of Julie B茅na, Susie Green, Zoe Williams and Deniz 脺nal, to consider how objects facilitate intimacy and the importance of trust and solidarity. While coming from female perspectives 鈥楽omething soft鈥� subverts the conflation of softness with femininity鈥� reclaiming tenderness as something which exists beyond gendered norms.
The artists鈥� spatial interventions, sound works, performances, video and sculpture, flirt with sexual intimacy, power exchange, consensual pain, bodily smells or liquids, bondage and ritual. But rather than sensationalising sexual pleasure, 鈥楽omething soft鈥� foregrounds moments ofinteraction 鈥� touch, spaces between communication, the things which go unsaid 鈥� to which the sex act itself can be seen as a biproduct.
As a prelude to 鈥楽omething soft鈥� Deniz 脺nal will perform 鈥楥haracters of Control鈥� with Amy Gwatkin and Nadja Voorham at Kunstraum on Saturday 6 April (7pm) with the exhibition opening on Friday 12 April (6.30鈥�9pm).
鈥楽omething soft鈥� is the first of Kunstraum鈥檚 exhibitions curated by Co-Director Hannah Conroy, and the first group exhibition here since 2015. It will be accompanied by an events programme reflecting on wider questions of sex, eroticism and flirtation, with contributions by Camille Brechignac, Thomas Cuckle and Camille Houz茅.
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