FLESH ARRANGES ITSELF DIFFERENTLY
14 January–22 May 2022
Hunterian Art Gallery
Admission free
Rita Ackermann | Horst Ademeit | Michael Armitage | Huma Bhabha | Christine Borland | Miriam Cahn | Michael Dean | Jimmie Durham | Ayan Farah | Ilana Halperin | Tamara Henderson | Loie Hollowell | Yayoi Kusama | Liliane Lijn | Eduardo Paolozzi | Robert Rauschenberg | Michael E Smith | Danh Vō
Flesh Arranges Itself Differently is a unique collaboration between The Hunterian and the David and Indrė Roberts Collection. Co-curated with the Roberts Institute of Art (which manages the David and Indrė Roberts Collection), the exhibition explores the varied ways in which artists have evoked bodily experiences, often in response to the impacts of technology, spirituality or mortality.
Selected by splicing two very different collections together, the works included here range from early anatomical studies to contemporary works in painting, print, sculpture, photography and video by leading international artists. The contemporary works often translate corporeal experiences through sculpture and figurative imagery, but also include more abstract pieces that allude to spiritual beliefs and psychological experiences.
Throughout the exhibition, we encounter bodies and artworks themselves as exposed to the interventions of external forces. Flesh Arranges Itself Differently explores new perspectives on these forces and the ways we have developed understandings of our bodies, whether in relation to their materiality, their transformation in modernity, or through otherworldly experiences.
Image: Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, No Heroes Developed, 1970. © The Hunterian, University of Glasgow.
VISITOR INFORMATION
- Flesh Arranges Itself Differently is at the Hunterian Art Gallery from 14 January–22 May 2022.
- Open Tuesday to Sunday 10am–5pm. Closed Monday.