Holly Lynton @ Rocket-Projects
For those of you who are heading south some time soon, jen bekman artist Holly Lynton is participating in a group show at Rocket-Projects in Miami called THE SOCIAL BODY, opening this Saturday April 8th.
Here is the description:
“This exhibition explores the common disparity between the classical
and conceptual uses for the body and its actual use in everyday life.
The body has typically been isolated and idealized through art,
whether to provide a model for representational scale and beauty, or
to show how the body belongs to the person, as do all of the
significations attached to it. Useful as both of these approaches may
be, they also push us away from any comprehension of how the body
exists as a means of social expression. In most cases, we cannot help
but contribute to the context of social expression which the body
controls. From an early age, we are made superconscious of the type of
body that we have, how we perceive its merits and its shortcomings,
and how others perceive them as well. The disparity between one manner
of perception and the latter fills in many of the gaps of early
socialization. Bodies have a language all of their own, which may be a
product of ethnic or sexual identity, a response to the population in
which we move, and to a sense of our innate self-worth.”
Sounds like an interesting show! Holly’s work at jen bekman has included many self portraits shot at very close range and explore events in her day to day life. For images of Holly’s work check here.
