“ OUR BODY BELONGS TO US “ PHOTO AND VIDEO INSTALLATION AT GEORGES BERGÈS GALLERY/ NEW YORK CITY
Homage To Egon Schiele
Preparation and Installation of the Photography work.
“Georges Bergès Gallery Invitation Card
Our Body Belongs To Us In The Age Of Censorship, Pornography and Social Engineering”
Instalation of Film excerpt from Exhibition, “Our Body Belongs To Us”
“Our Body Belongs To Us”
Text by David Goldenberg
The body is as much subject to the same forces as being and thinking during the course of history, the same forces that wish to deflect us from comprehending these essential entities and components of who we are. It is this knot that Nietzsche's thinking revolves around. We are constantly ripped away from existing inside these entities. In that respect, we exist for others. We live under the illusion that we are individuals and that we can think for ourselves, whereas in fact we are, of course, constructs. The mind tricks us into thinking we are individuals, and society encourages this illusion.
How do we recuperate our bodies and actual thinking? How do we sink back into ourselves and reconcile ourselves with the materiality of our bodies without succumbing to guilt and disgust? How do we find an art that strikes a balance between contemplation and physicality before crossing over into disgust through exposing too much matter, where we can no longer bear to look, seems to be the question Brasch raises throughout her project! This is about taking the male puritan history of philosophy and casting it in flesh and liquid. The body is subject to the same dilemma as existence; we are subject to the daily bombardment of bodies, pornography, overload of information, and everyday things. For that reason, because we are overly familiar and bored and exhausted with this experience, we think we recognize and understand what is before us or the thing we occupy. Quite the opposite. These are images given to women by men, and images given to men and women by the apparatus of society.
“Our Body Belongs To us” Homage to Egon Schiele
Gallery Opening NYC 2024 September