For Appleton Box, Bernadette Wolbring presents Nouveaumin 20, a series of photo panels accompanied by an orthopedic ready-made. Additionally, the publication Square Pegs in Round Holes is introduced in a lecture performance. A give-away poster that can be folded into a medical tool is produced for the event.

Both works deal with bodily modifications and gender classification in the pharmacopornographic era, a time when sex hormone levels get deliberately altered through sports, nutrition or hormonal supplements. Nouveaumin 20 looks into the surplus values and downsides of the latest hormonal contraceptives while Square Pegs in Round Holes has a wider focus, investigating how notions of gender play into medical decisions and how such body politics impact social structures. The publication comprises a series of posters that mimic methodologies used in the medical field: from simulating objectivity through the use of abstraction to the invention of tools constituting standards and measuring deviation from the norm.

Bernadette Wolbring (*1975) is a German artist based in Stockholm and Stuttgart. She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and from the State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart. Her practice derives from an interest in the political potential of abstraction and in alternative notions of time. Research for Square Pegs in Round Holes brought her to Museumsquartier Vienna (2016/17), the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2016/17) and Art Lab Gnesta (2017). The publication has been presented at a.o. Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm; Museum Weserburg, Bremen; The Swedish Institute, Paris, and is available from Motto, Berlin, and Moderna Museet, Malmö. As part of peekaboo!, she extends her artistic practice with curatorial formats.

Novembro, 2018