The Second Body

13th Mar - 27th Apr 2024

Soho Revue, 14 Greek St, W1D 4DP, London

“Every living thing has two bodies. To be an animal is to be in possession of a physical body, a body which can eat, drink and sleep; it is also to be embedded in a worldwide network of ecosystems. When every human body has an uncanny global presence, how do we live with ourselves?’ - The Second Body, Daisy Hildyard

Soho Revue is pleased to present The Second Body, a group exhibition of paintings by Loren Erdrich, Hanne Peeraer, Sonia Jia, Noah Schneiderman, Johanna Seidel and Fiona Finnegan in which each artist adopts this slippery, flowing, unstable, coagulating mentality formally and metaphorically in their paintings. In this exhibition, the viewer is encouraged to imagine a world that expands beyond the constraints of time, scale and geography. For some of the artists, through their use of organic material their work formally mimics the landscapes and natural elements they describe. For the others, such as Johanna and Loren, these notions are explored through more lucid yet equally affecting images, in which facets of the human body morph with the landscape into new organic forms. At the core of this exhibition is the hope that we can have a more empathetic approach to the world around us, and consequently a fruitful, reciprocal relationship with the ecosystems in which we exist.