Body Art
According to body shape & behaviors


Relationship between body and material
“I became part of the sculpture, it became an extension of me.”


Ernesto Neto is a contemporary Brazilian artist who creates large installations of large, soft, biomorphic structures that visitors can walk amongst, touch or sometimes sit in. They are generally made of a white stretchy stocking like fabric and filled with Styrofoam although sometimes they are filled with aromatic spices

Sarah Lucas
Her work has consistently been characterised by irreverent humour and the use of everyday ‘readymade' objects – furniture, food, tabloid newspapers, tights, toilets, cigarettes – to conjure up corporeal fragments. The body – in its many guises – is Lucas’s prevailing subject. In the 1990s she placed herself at the heart of her work in a series of photographic self-portraits. These images’ disarming mixture of vulnerability and attitudinising set the double-edged tone of much of the artist’s subsequent work.