Second Skin: Categories

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Opening Gallery
The opening wall of the exhibition will be hung with photographs by the Israeli photographer Elinor Carucci. Her close-up studies of human skin feature the rituals of beauty in clinical detail: nylon stockings, lipstick, tweezers.

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Beauty, Horror, + Biotechnology
The bioengineering of living tissue exemplifies the new technology of skin. This section will present medical products, works of art, and feats of robotic engineering in which natural skin is simulated through artificial means.

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Erotics of the Artificial
Objects with soft, washable surfaces and flexible latex skins—to be installed in quasi-domestic settings—reflect on contemporary desires for hyper-cleanliness and mediated touch.

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Body Armors
Protective technologies for the body enhance human endurance of weather, war, disease, and disaster. Practical and experimental garments and gear presented here are drawn from the worlds of design and fashion and from athletic, rescue, and medical applications.

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Luminous Objects, Luminous Surfaces
New architectural surfaces and materials will be used to construct an environment for furnishings and light fixtures whose forms and surfaces pulse with artificial life.

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Living Architectures
Architectural projects by Greg Lynn, Kol/Mac Studio, Architecture Research Officce, and United_Realities will be shown through projections, renderings, and digital prints. The projects approach the architectural surface as a living, changing membrane: an intelligent skin.)
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> video, Flesh, Bones, Skin, filmed at exhibition site

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