Skin
Skin
by Rachel Kohn
July 1 - 21, 2006
chashama266
266 West 37th Street
New York, NY
This exhibition questioned the role that our skin plays on our own bodies. Often revealing and concealing sickness, scars and fragility, skin can act as a protective shield and a hiding place, masking what is really inside. Interested in the effects of surgeries, being torn apart and sewn back together as a repetitive motion, "SKIN" was Rachel's attempt to unravel, suture and soothe all of these layers.
Simultaneous to a like-themed window installation at our 112 West 44th Street space, "SKIN" transformed 266 into an intricate, abstract landscape that the viewer could enter into. Inspired by things falling apart, pieces coming back together, sickness, surgery, vulnerability and decay, Rachel combined all of these elements and visually romanticized them. The result was a dramatic space expressing tremendous weight and gravitational pull.
www.rachelkohnart.com
by Rachel Kohn
July 1 - 21, 2006
chashama266
266 West 37th Street
New York, NY
This exhibition questioned the role that our skin plays on our own bodies. Often revealing and concealing sickness, scars and fragility, skin can act as a protective shield and a hiding place, masking what is really inside. Interested in the effects of surgeries, being torn apart and sewn back together as a repetitive motion, "SKIN" was Rachel's attempt to unravel, suture and soothe all of these layers.
Simultaneous to a like-themed window installation at our 112 West 44th Street space, "SKIN" transformed 266 into an intricate, abstract landscape that the viewer could enter into. Inspired by things falling apart, pieces coming back together, sickness, surgery, vulnerability and decay, Rachel combined all of these elements and visually romanticized them. The result was a dramatic space expressing tremendous weight and gravitational pull.
www.rachelkohnart.com
