Research Catalog

Title

Life and limbs / curated by Anna-Sophie Berger.

Publication

• New York : Swiss Institute ; Nilan, Italy : Lenz, [2022]
• New York : ARTBOOK/D.A.P.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Berger, Anna-Sophie, 1989-
• Swiss Institute (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, host institution.

Description

151 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm.

Summary

The gallery becomes a mouth. It has four pointy teeth and is an aged, even sickly, shade of off-white. The teeth are walls, and on them hang artworks selected by Austrian artist Anna-Sophie Berger for the exhibition life and limbs, Swiss Institute's fourth installment of its Architecture and Design Series. Berger's premise for the show considers the body an experimental testing ground for design, a living site that is both vulnerable and resilient. As the title implies, life and limbs exists in a world where the human body, unadorned, is at risk and often confronts threat with dark and knowing humor but also with grace. Across these works, which draw from speculative architectures, Surrealism, late twentieth-century fashion design, and Viennese Actionism, among many other subsects of modern visual culture, Berger's singular understanding of corporeal awareness unfolds. In the clutches of this jaw, bodies find ways to disappear, though some stretch, reach, and metamorphosize in attempts to escape themselves. This book is a means to further explore Berger's thesis. Three remarkable essays, by Annie Godfrey Larmon, Philipp Ekardt and Berger herself, ponder the works that populate this wunderkammer and question design's transformative potential.

Series Statement

• Architecture and design series
• SI

Uniform Title

• Architecture and design series (New York, N.Y.)
• SI series (Swiss Institute (New York, N.Y.))

Subject

• Berger, Anna-Sophie, 1989- > Exhibitions
• Swiss Institute (New York, N.Y.) > Exhibitions
• Swiss Institute (New York, N.Y.)
• 1900-2099
• Arts, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Arts, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Conceptual art > Exhibitions
• Installations (Art) > Exhibitions
• Arts, Modern
• Conceptual art
• Installations (Art)

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JQF 22-1946

ISBN

9791280579096

OCLC

1289987522

Title

Life and limbs / curated by Anna-Sophie Berger.

Publisher

New York : Swiss Institute ; Nilan, Italy : Lenz, [2022]

Distributor

New York : ARTBOOK/D.A.P.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Architecture and design series

SI

Architecture and design series (New York, N.Y.)

SI series (Swiss Institute (New York, N.Y.))

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Added Author

Berger, Anna-Sophie, 1989- curator.

Swiss Institute (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-1946