SKIN IN THE GAME IS AN EXHIBITION OF OVER 30 ARTISTS CURATED BY ZOE LUKOV THAT POSITS SKIN AS A FRAMEWORK TO EXPLORE TOUCH AND TRANSMISSION
OPENING FOR MIAMI ART WEEK FROM NOV 29-DEC 10, 2021 AT 1620 WASHINGTON AVENUE
Skin in the Game, an exhibition of the work by over 30 diverse artists, curated by Zoe Lukov is a collectiveoffering. The exhibition is about touch, transmission, and skin—the potential, vulnerability and risk contained therein—as a boundary to protect from danger or as a porous border to receive. It seeks to establish a dialogue with the erotic and has through lines that touch on game, color, race, the hunt, sport, religious iconography and competition. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, will be on view from November 29–December 10, 2021.
“The artworks included are a proposal to exfoliate the exoskeletons of our collective desire and fear, to circumnavigate the edges of our hungering, our wanting”, said Lukov, an independent curator based in Los Angeles. “This is about indulgence amidst scarcity. There is pornography with sanctity, hedonism with decadence, but there are also tidal waves of swelling climactic joy.”
An international roster of artists from Argentina,Barbados, China, Colombia, Cuba, France, Japan, Mexico, U.K. and USA, whose work is diverse in terms of genre, trajectory, and perspective include Derrick Adams, Isabelle Albuquerque, Tosh Basco, Lynda Benglis, Carlos Betancourt, Raúl de Nieves, Jen DeNike, Jane Dickson, Amir H. Fallah, Gonzalo Fuenmayor, Nicholas Galanin X Merritt Johnson, Theaster Gates, Generic Art Solutions, Clarity Haynes, Micol Hebron, Camille Henrot, Zhang Huan, Jesse Krimes, Marilyn Minter, Maynard Monrow, Carlos Motta, Paul Pfeiffer, Elizabeth Prentis, Gabriel Rico, Erin M. Riley, Florencia Rodriguez Giles, Sheena Rose, Moises Salazar, Eduardo Sarabia, Hank Willis Thomas, Urara Tsuchiya, Juana Valdes, Kennedy Yanko and Jwan Yosef.
Taking over an unlikely Art Deco space in the heart of South Beach, where Lincoln Road meets Washington Avenue, where anesthetized urban mall shopping meets bikini-clad bombshells and boxing buffs, amidst the vestiges of a bygone south beach-past of tattoo parlors, sex shops and strip clubs, the exhibition presents a multiplicity of interpretations on skin.
Among the historic works on loan to the exhibition like Zhang Huan’s ½ (Meat + Text) (1998), Lynda Benglis’s Eat Meat (1969/1975) and Jane Dickson’s Peep series (1992-96), are new pieces created specifically for the exhibition by Raúl de Nieves, Moises Salazar, Gonzalo Fuenmayor, Eduardo Sarabia and Sheena Rose. Early and rarely-seen works by Carlos Motta and Carlos Betancourt will be presented, as well as new works by Gabriel Rico and new, never-before-seen photographs by Tosh Basco. Works on loan from major private collections will be on view such as Theaster Gate’s Reliquary, Clarity Hayne’s Genesis, Marilyn Minter’s Pamela Anderson and works from the iconic series Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Paul Pfeiffer as well as his Caryatid (Rios).
“Having skin in the game is about power, danger, currency, play, joy, indulgence as well as the taboo, the voyeuristic and the hedonistic," continued Lukov on her inspiration for the exhibition. “There is an inherent violence and vulnerability, as well as a promise of pleasure, that comes with being in one’s skin. This is an opportunity to explore skin as a site of potential transmission, of hand-sanitized stickiness, of lost contact. There is a desire to understand what touch can be now—the ecstasy after global isolation.”
Exhibition
Skin in the Game
Curated by Zoe Lukov
Address: 1620 Washington Avenue (between Lincoln Road & 16th Street), Miami, Fl 33139.
Dates open to the public
November 30–December 10, 2021
Hours: 12 p.m.–8 p.m.
Exhibition Preview
Monday, November 29, 2021 at 11 a.m.