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Please Touch: Body Boundaries

April 29–August 1, 2018

Please Touch: Body Boundaries is organized by filmmaker Dana Ben-Ari and Ysabel Pinyol, Curatorial Director of Mana Contemporary. In their approach to the show, Ben-Ari and Pinyol ask many questions: “When is the body’s anatomy sexualized and in what contexts? For what reason? What are the boundaries?”

The exhibition engages with today’s climate of accusations, denials, bodies, and borders through work that is sensual, exhilarating, painful, confusing, sexual, and vulgar. It features over fifty artists and includes contemporary art dating from the 1960s through 2018. Works examine identity and sexuality, expectations and assumptions, role-playing, breastfeeding, and motherhood.

Please Touch: Body Boundaries is on view at Mana Contemporary from April 29- August 1 2018. Artists discussions are scheduled for June 2nd.

ARTISTS:
Z Behl, Brigid Berlin, Iris Bernblum, Louise Bourgeois, Sam Cannon, Larry Clark, Renee Cox, Isabel Czerwenka-Wenkstetten, Sue de Beer, Jamie Diamond, Jess Dobkin, ANGE, Jill Downen, Faith47, Nona Faustine, Yara Flores, Zhen Guo, Clarity Haynes, Stephen Irwin, Amy Jenkins, Malia Jensen, Zoë Sua Kay, Laura Kimmel, Martin Kippenberger, Jiří Kolář, Justine Kurland, Ani Liu, Mary Ellen Mark, Sean Mellyn, Azikiwe Mohammed, Jeffly Gabriela Molina, Kristianne Molina, Takashi Murakami, Michelle
Murphy, Ebecho Muslimova, Ruby Neri, Olek, Yoko Ono, Catherine Opie, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Elaine Reichek, ThreeASFOUR, Lola Montes Schnabel, Tschabalala Self, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Annie Sprinkle, Swoon, Atelier van Lieshout, Pinar Yolaçan, and Barbara Zucker.

Video was produced by Aleph Pictures.