Skin to Skin is an outstanding key work of contemporary art that sharpens the international orientation of the collection while simultaneously refining its focus on socially relevant, multi-vocal art histories. With this acquisition, the St.Gallen Art Museum continues its new collection strategy to critically reflect the holdings through targeted historical and contemporary expansions and to further unravel established (art) historical narratives.
Skin to Skin consists of ten figures, one of which is placed on a mirrored pedestal, a mirrored tower, and a soundtrack. Intensely fluctuating green light immerses the space in an atmospherically dense scenario. Sculpture, sound, reflection, and light combine to create an immersive experience.
Inspired by science fiction and Afrofuturism, the artist explores strategies of camouflage, transformation, and disappearance. In doing so, she negotiates conditions of visibility, control, and self-representation. The work alludes to the transience of presence as well as those mechanisms through which bodies – particularly the Black body – are simultaneously exposed and withdrawn. Skin to Skin thus opens an intense, speculative space between protection and threat, presence and opacity.
According to Director Gianni Jetzer, with this acquisition, the St.Gallen Art Museum strengthens its profile as an institution that sustainably incorporates current social issues into the collection with precise contemporary positions – and thanks SENN Resources, St.Gallen, for the groundbreaking support of this acquisition.
The presentation of Skin to Skin at the St.Gallen Art Museum is planned for the first half of 2027.
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