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Flesh Arranges Itself Differently

Maximiliane Leuschner

Flesh Arranges Itself Differently opens with art-historical representations of the human form. Early anatomical prints and drawings by William Hogarth, William Cowper and Robert Macaulay Stevenson show lean muscular male bodies. They are placed in dialogue with four of Miriam Cahn’s painted spectral bodies, emanating from four warmly toned canvases like reawakened X-radiographs with visible female genitalia. Cahn’s figures hold the visitor’s gaze; their agency remedies how women have been depicted in art history—transforming from passive, decorative props (such as the many reclining nudes) into domineering and lively subjects.

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