SPECULUM
2020101PS - project space
Hartwichstraße 101
50733 Cologne
101PS
Hartwichstraße 101
50733 Cologne
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«Speculum» is a cross-disciplinary project aiming to create a space for reflection about intimacy, nakedness, sexuality and gender identity. Since too often the term «body» is contrasted with «mind» and thus used to designate a separate reality from the rest of our «being», this project concerns the (re)discovery of the body as an integral part of self-identification.
Refusing the notions of indecency and shame, we want to promote a climate of curiosity and acceptance around nakedness. What relationship do you have to your own genitalia? How do we feel in our skin in the moment of exposure to someone else’s gaze? Is there a clear-cut line between empowerment and oppression of our bodies?
Bringing together various fields of artistic practice, this exhibition strives to explore the physicality of our bodies without reducing them to flesh, asking what it means to be naked in a hypersexualized world.
T: Katharina Stahlhofen
Artist:
Charlotte Werth
Elisabeth Prehn
Katharina Stahlhofen
Mirjam Radovic
Paula Ahn
Saskia Kinast
Studio Kuhlmann
Performance:
"The only reason for me to get naked is to take a bath or to make love" by Mirjam Radovic & Katharina Stahlhofen
Text:
Katharina Stahlhofen
Graphic:
Elisabeth Prehn, Paula Ahn
Initiator:
Hannah Kuhlmann
