Artists have long used the human figure to reflect on societal anxieties and psychological traumas. In Our Image: The Fragile Body in Contemporary Art brings this tendency into the present moment. By gathering works from collections, alongside private and institutional loans, the exhibition—featuring artists such as Janine Antoni—draws on the human form as a window into identity, psychology, and consciousness. Here, the figure is not a symbol of perfection, but rather, a site of striving.
These works adopt vulnerability as a throughline, posing the fragile human body as a site for storytelling. At times animal or automated, they rely on moments of fallibility as a lens with which to reframe the nature of contemporary selfhood. Placing work from different cultural contexts in conversation, the exhibition looks at the vulnerable body as both a stage for the self and a reflection of society.
This exhibition runs through 30 January, 2027.
