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Original cloth bdg. HC. 176 p. In English and Turkish. Small 4to. Color and b/w ills. Flemish artist Berlin De Bruyckere frequently uses material such as wax, wood, wool, horse skin and hair to produce sculptures and drawings that refer to the body's fragility, to suffering and desire. The new works the artist will show in Istanbul include "-009-, 2011-2012" and a new series entitled "The Wound". As part of the exhibition, two new works will be presented at the Çukurcuma Hamam. This space was included as an exhibition venue at the artist's request, who wished to engage her work in a dialogue with the local context and architectural heritage. This additional exhibition site also refers to the idea of cleansing the body, rubbing off the extra layer of skin, which in a sense implies moulting. Includes Nadar's hermaphrodite photographs in 1861 and examples from a rare Ottoman medical album which De Bruyckere has discovered in a library in Istanbul etc.