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ARCH is pleased to announce the exhibition Exploding Plastic Inevitable by Lena Henke.
Lena Henke lives and works in New York City and Berlin.
Lena Henke tests the possibilities of sculpture through technically innovative methods of production, expanding its traditional meaning by confronting themes of femaleness and the production of power relations in urban space. The capacities of sculpture serve Henke as a basis for understanding the molding (and casting) of bodies as a changeable process of design. In series like Hooves, Boobs, and Sand Bodies, Henke blends mimetic forms with surrealist imagery, engaging the myth of masculinity while working within historical traditions to interrogate the logic of sculptural representation and representability. Her interventions in the psychology of existing urban structures—such as relocating exhibition entrances or altering street signage—allow her to grasp urbanity as a historically evolved sculpture. By weaving feminist and autobiographical…
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ARCH is pleased to announce the exhibition Exploding Plastic Inevitable by Lena Henke.
Lena Henke lives and works in New York City and Berlin.
Lena Henke tests the possibilities of sculpture through technically innovative methods of production, expanding its traditional meaning by confronting themes of femaleness and the production of power relations in urban space. The capacities of sculpture serve Henke as a basis for understanding the molding (and casting) of bodies as a changeable process of design. In series like Hooves, Boobs, and Sand Bodies, Henke blends mimetic forms with surrealist imagery, engaging the myth of masculinity while working within historical traditions to interrogate the logic of sculptural representation and representability. Her interventions in the psychology of existing urban structures—such as relocating exhibition entrances or altering street signage—allow her to grasp urbanity as a historically evolved sculpture. By weaving feminist and autobiographical…
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