Exhibition features works by Aria Dean, Sandra Mujinga, and Tschabalala Self

Galerie Eva Presenhuber presents a group exhibition featuring works by Aria Dean, Sandra Mujinga, and Tschabalala Self. Working across the mediums of moving image, sculpture and painting, the artists explore the making and erasure of the body: Dean stages death without the dead, Mujinga sutures grief into spectral silhouettes, and Self reconstructs the figure through assemblage. Together, their works trace the architectures of modern violence, resisting spectacle while reconfiguring the terms of subjecthood. Of the artists in this exhibition, Tschabalala Self (b. 1990 in Harlem, NY, US; lives and works in Upstate New York) presents the most explicitly painterly position. Working across painting — that is, the application of acrylic and oil- based pigments to canvas — as well as collage, appliqué and stitching, Self constructs playful yet deliberate, larger- than-life figures of women. Echoing the logic of the Surrealist “exquisite corpse,” these bodies appear as tho