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Front left detail: Hannah Perry, Action Film Car Crash Sex Scene, 2016 - © the artist | Front right detail: Zoe Williams, Village Baroque, 2016 - © the artist and Galerie Antoine Levi
Exhibition
Breaking Shells
25 Jan 2018 – 10 Mar 2018
Event times
The Koppel Project Baker Street: Mon-Sat, 10am-18pm
The Koppel Project Hive: Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 93 Baker Street
- London
England - W1U 6RL
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Baker Street
- Baker St / Marylebone
The exhibition examines the body from a female perspective and features nine contemporary artists, including Chelsea Culprit, Penny Goring, Rachel Jones, Jessie Makinson, Jala Wahid, Zoe Williams, Lotte Andersen, Shana Moulton, and Hannah Perry.
About
The Koppel Project is pleased to present Breaking Shells, a group exhibition curated by Justine Do Espirito Santo. Bringing together nine contemporary artists, the show examines the body from a female perspective.The exhibition takes over the two Koppel Project galleries, Baker Street and The Hive, to present two distinct but continuous explorations of this subject.
Part I, at Baker Street, explores narratives and representations of the body, both from a historical and a contemporary point of view. The artists examine subjects including the relationship between body and identity; how female bodies are represented in art, history, and pop culture; clichés surrounding black bodies; taboos and ideas about sexuality, sex work, and fetishism; the relationship between body and language. Together, the display takes the viewer into a universe merging past and present, where the body, omnipresent, is in turn scrutinised, idealised, objectified, and empowered.
In Part II, at The Hive, Breaking Shells creates a space where the body can set itself free from the social and cultural constraints examined in Part I. Through videos, installations, and immersive works, the artists invite us to embrace individual and collective sensorial experience and bodily expression. It is a celebration of flesh, emotions, sense, movement, and euphoria, advocating physicality and movement as acts of resistance.
The exhibition includes sculptures, paintings, drawings, videos, and installations never previously presented in London as well as specially commissioned artworks.
It is accompanied by an illustrated publication comprising an essay by Gabriella Pounds and images selected by the artists.
