[spectre] Body of Evidence

[Lanfranco Aceti]

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the opening of the new exhibition at Kasa
Gallery in Istanbul -

Body of Evidence
by Tom Corby in collaboration with Gavin Baily

Kasa Gallery, Istanbul from March 21 to April 20, 2013
Opening Cocktail: March 21, 2013 at 18:00

Body of Evidence initiates a series of new artworks and installations
designed to blur the boundaries between medicine, data, documentation,
economics and art. Conceived as a complex autoportrait of the body
undergoing advanced treatment for cancer, the exhibition serves as the
primary site where the possibilities, visibilities and public
manifestations of the body at its most vulnerable are tested to their
limits.

The exhibition charts the artist’s expedition inside his own body and
across his own soul, exploring the existential data of a body/object
subjected to medical intervention; the body as a system that while in
the process of shutting down, continues to produce data.

In equal parts heroic and obsessive, this project touches on attitudes
to death and disease in a wider sense, namely a desire to find ways,
processes and forms to transcend the act of termination and come to an
accord with our feelings about it.

http://www.lanfrancoaceti.com/2013/03/body-of-evidence/

Produced in collaboration with MoCC (Museum of Contemporary Cuts),
Goldsmiths College, Sabanci University and the University of
Westminster.

Senior Curator: Lanfranco Aceti
Associate Curator: Vince Dziekan
Curator: Ozden Sahin
Junior Curator: Jonathan Munro