UNDER THE SKIN

Group Exhibition

with photographs by Ulrike Ottinger

"This summer MO.CO. Panacée presents a group exhibition exploring monstrosity, the monstrous, and mutant forms in contemporary art. To paraphrase Antonio Gramsci, we live in a time of monsters. Gramsci may have been reflecting on interregnum, a moment of legal and political in-betweenness in which legality becomes suspended, and which, in his case, preceded the rise of fascism in the 20th century. Yet the present also does not seem immune to what can only be described as the monstrous, without, however, being able to define it more precisely. According to the teratologist Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, the monster represents everything that a society tries to reject or suppress. It is an error, difference, deviance, excess. (...)

Artists
Albrecht Becker, Kévin Blinderman, Julien Ceccaldi, Sue Coe, Julian Farade, Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė, Penny Goring, Tirdad Hashemi, Richard Hawkins, Augustin Katz, Keunmin Lee, Tala Madani, Stéphane Mandelbaum, Mónica Mays, Brilant Milazimi, Nuria Mokhtar, Arthur Monteillet, Moor Mother avec Glenn Espinosa & Cauleen Smith, Ulrike Ottinger, Lili Reynaud Dewar, James Richards & Steve Reinke, Sibylle Ruppert, Ebun Sodipo, Ceija Stojka, Michelle Uckotter, Jenkin van Zyl, Issy Wood."

(Source: MO.CO.)

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