Dangerous Beauty
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Dangerous Beauty was 2002 exhibition held at Laurie Tisch Sussman Gallery at the J.C.C., New York City, curated by Manon Slome.
- The exhibition, Dangerous Beauty, investigates and challenges society’s ideal of beauty and the designer body created and supported by mass consumerism. Many of the artists selected capture the anxiety of this beauty -centered society and raise questions on the human impact of living in the glare of images that, without manipulation, may have no human incarnation. The exhibition aims to raise questions about the mass ideology of beauty and explore the connections between beauty and violence, the phobia of aging, issues of self-perception and the element of power inherent in an “ideal.”
- The exhibition will be composed of a selection of work in a variety of media (painting, sculpture, photography, installation and video) chosen to reflect a response to “dangerous beauty”, this area where the beauty myth collides with reality. The works selected examine the phenomena and implications of the current dictates of beauty and identity, contest the values and apparatus of the times and raise the question as to whether there is a place for the subjective and the individual in a society of mass expression. Artists in the exhibition include:
Nelly Agassi - Beth B - Nicola Costantino - Jacob Dahlgren - Davis & Davis - E V Day - Martin C De Waal - Daniella Dooling - Ruud Van Empel - Sylvie Fleury - Lauren Greenfield - Margi Geerlinks - Kirsten Geisler - Micha Klein - Paul Knight - Barbara Kruger - Rachel Lachowicz - Assi Meshullam - Marilyn Minter - Joshua Neustein - Erwin Olaf - Orlan - Patricia Piccinini - Tom Sanford - Gae Savannah - Joan Semmel - Joseph Stashkevetch
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