Play of the Body in Space

Yumna Al-Arashi, Hicham Benohoud, Jenna Westra

Yumna Al-Arashi, Hicham Benohoud, Jenna Westra

STUDIO 4 BERLIN brings together work by three artists from different corners of the world: Yumna Al-Arashi, Hicham Benohoud, and Jenna Westra. Different generations, aesthetics, and cultures enter into an inspiring dialogue.

Their common focus is the human body in correlation with space, depicting parallel planes of reality. The artists’ images provoke questions about self-perception, the gaze of others, and the way this gaze objectifies us; and, too, about human relations, power, and submission, and the possibilities of identity. Role play and transgressions of the physical are revealed. Bodies are reduced to objects; sometimes they even become graphic arrangements. Each in its specific way, the chosen series underscore the close connection between performance and staged photography.