"Touched: A Space of Relations" Exhibition
Bitforms Gallery
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Bitforms gallery presents an exhibition that explores the sense of touch as a metaphor of bodily presence and an extension across boundary. Actualizing our understandings of public/private and inside/outside, touch is a gesture system. It manipulates physical, social, psychological and electronic domains, aiding in their transformation.
Presenting a cross-generational selection of voices, "Touched: A Space of Relations" includes the work of four prominent artists working in Europe and the Americas. With the earliest work dating from 1966, the exhibition brings into focus a visual conversation between the artists Janine Antoni, Lygia Clark, Lynn Hershman Leeson and Annette Messager.
Highlights from the exhibition include four earlier works showing publicly in NYC for the first time: "Self Portrait as Another Person" (1966-68) by Lynn Hershman Leeson, "Mes Petites Effigies" (1989-90) by Annette Messager, and pieces from the series "Mes Trophees" (1986-88) also by Messager.
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Schedule
from February 26, 2011 to April 16, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-02-26 from 18:00 to 20:30
Artist(s)
Janine Antoni, Lygia Clark, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Annette Messager