Bodies in Flux and Fragments: Art’s Rebellion Against the Ordinary
Forget the old rules—today’s artists are reshaping the human body into something far more unpredictable. Instead of neat categories, these creators embrace bodies that morph, blend, and even break apart, echoing everything from ancient myth to modern machinery.
Exhibitions like “Unruly Bodies” at Goldsmiths CCA showcase figures that slip between human, animal, and technological forms, challenging ideas of what a body should be. Works by Camille Henrot and Shadi Al-Atallah channel both the grotesque and the sublime, using abstraction and movement to reveal the body’s power and vulnerability.
Elsewhere, artists like Ambera Wellmann and Ivana Bašić highlight the body’s fragmentation—not as loss, but as a gateway to new possibilities. Sculptures and paintings revel in ambiguity, celebrating difference and transformation over conformity.
In this new wave, the body is no longer a fixed shape but a site of endless invention—where breaking the mold is the ultimate act of freedom.
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