@Pulchri Studio

As part of the performance program of the exhibition ‘Weight of Air’ :

“bareskin (within/without)” is a gesture of skin and shelter—gelatin drawn over flesh, a second skin forged from another’s remains. Once hardened, what shelters also suffocates. Shelter becomes husk; protection a constraint. We build layers to shield ourselves from fear, yet in doing so, we borrow bones and bury breath. The body is held, not safely, but tightly. Movement tears the surface. Liberation scrapes against the very walls we once sought to comfort. We shelter ourselves in death-made layers, mistaking containment for safety, and fear for form. A bodily, audiovisual performance by Jacobus Benning and Bo Oskamp