Group show with Hanna-Maria Hammari, Agata Ingarden, Cathy Josefowitz, Kyung-Me, Tau Lewis, Maina-Miriam Munsky

We tend to think our minds are in control of our corporeal selves, but the body breathes without our consent or cooperation. We’re always with, and inseparable from, our bodies. Its permeable form sometimes makes it difficult to identify its boundaries, where cognition is extended beyond the physique. The fear of the wound (trauma) reminds us both how our bodies contain and our minds betray us. In ‘Liminal States’, four contemporary and two historical artistic positions trace different topographies of the self and its (post)corporeal manifestations. (…)
The coiling tentacles of Hanna-Maria Hammari’s ceramics caught in tightly stretched latex dig deep into our ambiguous feelings towards the flesh. Another set of ceramic sculptures intensifies the psychic tension, leaving uncertain whether they are designed to protect or harm the body. Their solid metal-like appearance stands in stark contrast with the inherent fragility of the glazed ceramic material. (…)
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Photography: Def Image