Under My Skin will present works by Martin Soto Climént, Una Szeemann and Hannah Villiger

Body and skin have been a political and antidotal medium since the early 1970s feminist activism. A contract with skin was initiated, one that needed to shock, insight awareness and aspire to reform dogmatic views and the status of women. Skin was then perceived as a site for resistance making “the personal is political”. In recent years there has been an increasing discourse on identity, queerness and discrimination in which normative ideas of social structures have been put on trial and approached for their sedimented biases. The body becomes again and again a site for political debate. What might come across as only personal matters related to the body, such as contraception, clothing, sexual preferences, religious belief etc, are instead heavily indoctrinated and at the core of political order. They mark status and power. 

The exhibited artworks play with our haptic perception through a rhetoric of desire. Arousing curiosity and attentiveness they in turn allow a slow and steady alertness to deeply profound ideas such as body agency, vulnerability and resilience.