As part of Dead Skin Cash, an exhibition by Ghita Skali and Salim Bayri at W139, six artists are were invited to react to the prompt “Who can afford to not sell their own skin?” by curating a playlist of visual and audio materials for this weekly screening program.
Tuesday 31 January — Mariana Penas Charrua
Tuesday 7 February — Sophie Soobramanien
Tuesday 14 February — Jay Tan
Tuesday 21 February — Nolwenn Vuillier
Tuesday 28 February — G
Tuesday 7 March — Henna Hyvärinen
On Dead Skin Cash:
Voluntarily or involuntarily we humans shed our dead skin. In this exhibition, Ghita Skali and Salim Bayri take this fact as their starting point to zoom in on the ambiguities within our relationship to dead skin—the tensions between its acceptance and rejection (some keep it, some scrub it away), its proximity and our neglect, our indifference and its unstoppable production, our obsession and care but disgust once it leaves the body.
film stills.
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