"Meat After Meat Joy" Exhibition
Daneyal Mahmood Gallery
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"Meat After Meat Joy" brings together the work of contemporary artists who use meat in their work (raw meat, the concept of meat, its symbolism and viscera) in order to investigate the paradoxical relationship meat has to the body. Meat combines flesh, skin, muscle, organs, blood — each with its own relationship to the body, yet meat’s only reference to the body is as a once-upon-a-time living biological thing. By putting these artists together, the exhibition seeks to investigate the uncanny effect meat as a medium is for artist and viewer. This is not a show about meat as spectacle but about meat as signification, precisely because meat does not signify (a body) but its very annihilation.
[Image: Sheffy Bleier "Testicles, from the series Body of Love" (2002-2005) lambda print 40 x 28 in.]
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Schedule
from October 16, 2008 to November 15, 2008