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Body in Pieces
KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation/Julia Höner

111 pp.
with 47 colour images
thread-sewn softcover



Leipzig July, 2019
ISBN: 9783959053129

Width: 21.4 cm
Length: 30 cm

Language(s): English, German

Editor
KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Julia Höner

Designer
Daniel Rother

Co-Editor
Marion Eisele

Artist
Monica Bonvicini, Leda Bourgogne, Mariechen Danz, Nadira Husain, Jens Pecho, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Ryan Trecartin

The human body is a structure interwoven with external interests, internal needs, and a wide range of self-imposed demands—its boundaries have now become porous both literally and figuratively. The publication Body in Pieces, which accompanies the exhibition of the same name, draws on in-depth essays and extensive spreads of images to showcase seven international artists who trace numerous real fragmentations of the body and its conflicted present-day reality. A body that has abandoned any idea of coherence and wholeness contains the crucial subversive potential to enable a break with normative systems and traditional notions of gender and role. The artists and authors involved in this book are focused on these key ambiguities in our modern conception of what it is to be human.

Julia Höner, artist and director of KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION, Düsseldorf

Texts by: Cecilia Canziani, Amaleena Damlé, Marion Eisele, Philipp Fernandes do Brito, Julia Höner, Anna-Alexandra Pfau, Kerstin Schankweiler, Monika Schnetkamp, Eva Scharrer

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