[New York, NY]

Erica Baum in The Second Body Group Show
June 21, 2019,
at KLAUS VON NICHTSSAGEND GALLERY

The Second Body brings together the work of 8 artists whose practices explore the body via examinations
of landscape, labor, time, and ritual.
The show’s title is drawn from Daisy Hildyard’s essay of the same name, in which she proposes that “every
living thing has two bodies” – the personal body, which we inhabit in our daily life, and the “second body”,
which is “not so solid as the other one, but much larger”. This second body is our physical existence as it
extends beyond the contours of our own skin, one that is implicated in a broad network of ecosystems.
In this exhibition, Hildyard’s writing acts as a point of departure to help us understand, in her words, “how
we see our bodies now”. In various forms of compositional abstraction, each artist uses the physicality of
the body to address the themes of labor, production, and our relationship to our environment.

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