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Body Works

Adam Smolana, Agata Bogacka, Alina Żemojdzin, Anna Nizio, Doireann O’Malley, Dom Mody Limanka, Dorota Kozieradzka, Dorota Nieznalska, Emeline Depas, Ewa Konieczna-Pilachowska, Gosia Golińska, Grupa Sędzia Główny, Hana Miletić, Honorata Martin, Izabela Chamczyk, Izabella Berwertz-Smolana, Jaanus Samma, Jacqueline Livingston, Jean Samuel N’Sengi, Justyna Kuklo, Józef Czerniawski, Kacper Szalecki, Kamil Sipowicz, Karol Radziszewski, Karolina Mełnicka, Kazimierz Ostrowski, Laura Pawela, Magdalena Łapińska-Rozenbaum, Mariola Brillowska, Mikołaj Sobczak & Nicholas Grafia, Monika Drożyńska, Przemek Branas, Simone Gad, Teresa Miszkin, Teresa Pągowska, Włodzimierz Wieczorkiewicz, Zbigniew Libera, Zuza Golińska @ State Gallery of Art, Sopot  Jun 13—Aug 11, 2019

Body Works, installation view with the work by Jean-Samuel N’Sengi at the State Art Gallery, Sopot. Photo by Alina Żemojdzin.

The view of the body in the era of blurring boundaries between public and private realms has become an essential tool for flaunting the need for acceptance, equal rights and freedom, including artistic creation. The ease of sharing that has been offered by social media works in two directions, and the changing reality imposes on the performances of the bodies still different interpretations, often radical, conditioned politically and ideologically. Crossing the limits of intimacy puts the body under the pillory of opinions and judgments (...). 

Body Works is the title of the exhibition-intervention at the State Art Gallery in Sopot — a selection of works by several dozen artists. The exhibition and series of events — confronting a number of practices and formats — is dedicated to the human body, placed in various contexts related to censorship and politics among others. 

Body Works follows up one of the chapters of the Somewhere in Between. Contemporary Art Scenes in Europe at BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels (2018).

Curated by Romuald Demidenko and Gosia Golińska

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