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The Staged Body: Contemporary Photography
In the first of an evolving and occasional exhibition series about how artists use
the body in contemporary art, The Staged Body features photographic works by Noah Angell, Mary Coble, Rineke Dijkstra, Justine Kurland, McCallum & Tarry, and Spencer Tunick. Contemporary artists continue to redefine the use of the body for a variety of performative, social, political, art historic, and plastic purposes. Photography has been a particularly rich medium for this investigation.
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Noah Angell
Mary Coble
Rineke Dijkstra
Justine Kurland
McCallum & Tarry
Spencer Tunick
Mary Coble
explores the blurred gender boundaries of the drag king and the androgyne in her videos and photographs. Her unsparing iconic presentation of an anonymous torso with duct-taped breasts and stuffed underwear is an image both confrontational and elegant. The evocation of physical pain and concealed body parts mirrors the emotional pain and secret lives that many trans-gendered or ambisexual individuals endure.
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