'Bodysnatchers' with CEES KRIJNEN, EUAN STEWART, JAY CLOTH, NEIL HAMON

4 Mar-27 Mar 2016

Overview

The fragility of the body and the concomitant mutability of identity. Stewart offers the template of the possible horrors the body is prey to. Krijnen displays himself, life-size, with the wound he suffered in an actual attack. Jay Cloth and Hamon move us into the safer region of art. Here the damage done to the body is merely formal, a simple matter of cut-and-paste, modifying the signifier and not the signified. All the more terrifying for that. naturally. Medicine exists to repair the body under attack, the detective/doctor to divine and the police/army to fight/prevent the cause. These artists serve to remind us of the existential threat to our being.