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Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s first solo exhibition in Belgium brings together new and existing works in a gentle, titillating, and sharp installation, specially created for the former anatomical theatre of KIOSK.
The building housing KIOSK was once home to the Clinical and Outpatient Institute, where students could witness dissections of human bodies. Hansen’s Untitled (Anatomical Venus) addresses the history of dissection through the medium of anatomical waxes, specifically referencing the figure of the Venerina (Little Venus), an 18th-century pregnant teenager who died of a heart attack, with her organs dissected and crafted in wax.
In Untitled (Anatomical Venus) (2024), the sexual and reproductive organs embedded in Mei-neche Hansen’s life-size sculpture are also cast in wax, following a dissection of a donated body by surgeons at UZA, Antwerp University Hospital. The exterior of the wax sculpture, by contrast, is cast from a modified 3D stock...More
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KIOSK•Nov 09, 2024 — Jan 12, 2025
Press release
Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s first solo exhibition in Belgium brings together new and existing works in a gentle, titillating, and sharp installation, specially created for the former anatomical theatre of KIOSK.
The building housing KIOSK was once home to the Clinical and Outpatient Institute, where students could witness dissections of human bodies. Hansen’s Untitled (Anatomical Venus) addresses the history of dissection through the medium of anatomical waxes, specifically referencing the figure of the Venerina (Little Venus), an 18th-century pregnant teenager who died of a heart attack, with her organs dissected and crafted in wax.
In Untitled (Anatomical Venus) (2024), the sexual and reproductive organs embedded in Mei-neche Hansen’s life-size sculpture are also cast in wax, following a dissection of a donated body by surgeons at UZA, Antwerp University Hospital. The exterior of the wax sculpture, by contrast, is cast from a modified 3D stock...More
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