Streams of Warm Impermanence – Opening Reception

With Kelly Akashi, Jean-Marie Appriou, Dora Budor, Justin Fitzpatrick, Ann Hirsch, Max Hooper Schneider, Donna Huanca, Renaud Jerez, Jason Matthew Lee, Athena Papadopoulos, Anna Uddenberg, Stewart Uoo and Issy Wood; and works by Renate Bertlmann, Carolee Schneemann, David Wojnarowicz and Martin Wong. Streams of Warm Impermanence is a group exhibition at DRAF of artworks that embody new iterations of flesh in a networked era. It looks beyond well-rehearsed anxieties about human corporeity in the digital age, to a vision of flesh as both material and a locus of fluid identity. These bodies are both informed by and infiltrate their cultural, chemical and social environments. The exhibition includes sculptures, paintings and drawings never previously presented in London as well as new commissions. Practices by international contemporary artists are accompanied by historical works that point to key moments of shift in artists’ engagement with the body. Thanks to the Institut Francais.