“All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles…” – Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
The body has long been a subject of the visual arts to communicate desire, often through patriarchal, normative and binaristic modes of interpreting both gender and sexuality. As a malleable medium, the body proclaims much by its appearance as well as its nonappearance. Eroticism is also an elusive, subjective and dynamic conceptual yet corporeal experience. Intervening in a long tradition of the nude body’s association with eroticism, artists today are using the body as a charged and fluid meaning-making agent. The first of a recurring exhibition series highlighting living artists, F*CK ART: the body & its absence explores nuanced evocations of the erotic body.
Working across mediums such as performance, sculpture, film, photography, ceramics, painting, drawing, fiber arts, and new media, F*CK ART brings together eighteen artists who share the collective urge to uninhibitedly explore the contours of desire and arousal in our current moment. The works of art on view play with art history’s preoccupation with the nude figure and rejection of the pornographic. Through varying examinations and meditations, the exhibition explores the body’s role in subjectively registering intimacy, fantasy, and longing.
Featured Artists:
CAJSA VON ZEIPEL, COYOTE PARK, NICKI GREEN, JIMENA CROCERI, ALINA PEREZ, MARIE KARLBERG, KAYODE OJO, CHERRY BRICE JR., CLIFFORD PRINCE KING, JUSTIN YOON, PACIFICO SILANO, VICTORIA DUGGER, TAO SIQI, MOTOKO ISHIBASHI, PIXY LIAO, CASEY KAUFFMANN, ERIN M. RILEY, ALEXANDRA NEUMAN
CURATORS Eve Arballo, Curator Emily Shoyer, Consulting Curator
CURATORIAL ASSISTANCE Kayla Janaé Smith, Curatorial Project Assistant Xavier Danto, Collections Assistant Megan Villa, Former Curatorial Project Coordinator
EXHIBITION DESIGN Eunice Yunjeong Lee
EXHIBITION PRODUCTION Cletis Chatterton
TECHNOLOGY TEAM Edgar Samudio Winston Forgenie Jr.
INSTALLATION & CONSTRUCTION TEAM Allison Halter Sara Sciabbarrasi Kiersten Lukason Flores Painting
LENDERS Company Gallery CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions PIEDRAS Galleria Deli Gallery Downs & Ross STARS Sargent's Daughters Lyles & King CAPSULE Shanghai P·P·O·W Gallery
