STUART BRISLEY, Louise Bourgeois' Leg, 2002

Andy Keate

Louise Bourgeois' Leg, 2002

Performance object, plaster, ironing board, wood

The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics explores how sculpture has responded to the technological supplementation of the body. Spanning the First World War to the present day, this exhibition of objects, drawings, films, photographs, paintings and archives from medical museum collections, focuses on analogue augmentation to the body, tracing how artists have addressed radical changes to the very thing humans know best: our bodies.

 

The First World War profoundly changed understandings of the human body, and this exhibition traces the means by which the body came to be reconstructed and rethought in culture in the wake of the conflict. It begins with facial prosthetics made by sculptors Francis Derwent Wood (1871-1926) and Anna Coleman Ladd (1878-1939) during the First World War, and includes works by Louise Bourgeois, Martin Boyce, Heinrich Hoerle and Jacob Epstein, and a commission by Rebecca Warren located directly outside the Institute building on the city's busiest thoroughfare.

 

The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics 

Galleries 1, 2 and 3

The Henry Moore Institute

74 The Headrow

Leeds, LS1 3AH

 

Wednesday 20 July, 2-4pm

Gallery Discussion and Preview

 

Stuart Brisley (artist) and Dr Julie Anderson (University of Kent) in conversation with Lisa Le Feuvre and Jon Wood (Henry Moore Institute)

 

21 July - 23 October 2016

 

The Henry Moore Institute

 

Kathryn Hughes in The Guardian

 

Charlotte Jansen in Wallpaper

 

Lisa Le Feuvre in Mousse: