The exhibition 'Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat' profoundly examines the human breast's multifaceted significance across culture, society, and art history. It showcases new commissions and existing works by a diverse array of international and local artists. Visitors can explore the tensions and sensuality generated by the breast, and its often contradictory reception within contemporary discourse.
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This group exhibition delves into the cultural, societal, and art-historical significance of the human breast. It features a wide range of international and local artists exploring the complexities, sensuality, and playfulness associated with breasts, particularly women's, and their often contradictory reception in society.
The exhibition _Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat_ critically investigates the meaning of the human breast across culture, society, and art history, showcasing works by international and local artists. It brings together new commissions and existing pieces that explore the breast, the tensions it generates, and its sensuality. The exhibition questions why breasts, especially women's, remain a subject of scandal and dispute in a world facing larger humanitarian and ecological crises, despite their omnipresence in media and conversation. Embodying a duality as symbols of nurturing motherhood and the eroticized female body, breasts significantly shape perceptions of gendered bodies. _Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat_ traces their transformation from religious symbols to secularized, sexualized objects. The exhibition acknowledges the diverse forms breasts can take and explores how they are perceived—as sources of shame or pride. It examines radical, queer, and feminist discourses around top surgeries, recognizing visibility as an act of resistance and exposure, while also considering the potential for normalization, sexualization, or objectification. Ultimately, the exhibition probes what remains or could again be considered erotic in a world saturated with readily available pornography.
With a ticket for _this human world_, visitors receive reduced admission to the exhibition _Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat_ (€ 6 instead of € 8).
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