All you have is not just Flesh and Bones

“The history of the body is the history of human beings,
for there is no cultural practice that is not first applied to the body.”*

How is our body conditioned when it collides with another?
Does a body exist only when physically present, or could it live on through a memory?

The first exhibition curated by Juan Rodrigo Torres Plata and Jennifer Posny for the Exhibit Studio in 2024 proposes an exploration into the many ways in which our bodies, as (mis)carriers of information, meaning and experiences, express what words can hardly describe. There is a focus on the complexity of human bodily interactions, starting from the vague fundamental barrier between what we consider the inside and the outside: the softest, yet thickest skin that holds us together. It saves our memories, internalizes guilt, externalizes shame; receives and provides touch, sends power. Forgets.

Does it really forget?

*Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism, Silvia Federici, 2020, PM Press, 1st edition, p.119

With contributions by:
Paulina Aumayr, Julia Becker, Cosma Grosser, Miao Fangping, Maria Gerbaulet, Samira Homayouni, Aklima Iqbal, Natalia del Mar Kašik, Minjae Kim, Rosa Knecht, Minh Phương Nguyễn, Paul Prothesis, Alex Salem, Em Schwarzwald, Friederike Steinert, Svieta Torremorell, Francisco Valenca Vaz, Stefanie Weber.