Kiki Smith: Procession, Belvedere, Vienna: 7 June-15 September 2019

Through 60 works of art, with a special emphasis on sculpture, the visitor will be led to reflect about the very close, inseparable bond between art and life in Kiki Smith’s existence: personal events interchange with historical facts, social and political changes couple with the artist’s personal transformation.

The exhibition’s title is in fact very telling: Procession means the evolution of the artist through her lifetime. From the first works displayed in the exhibition, dating back to the 80s showing the artist’s reaction to things  like feminist protests, the debate around sexuality and gender, the exhibition moves on to the works from the following decade, to a fairy and mythical world, populated by birds, cats, wolves, snakes and eagles, preponderates.

These two different periods share Kiki Smith’s constant search for identity, for the control over your own body and the artist is always in a position of precarious balance with the dichotomy between soul and body, life and death, culture and nature.

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