The Human Factor will bring together crucial works by 25 leading international artists. In addressing the body, the most frequently revisited subject in art’s history, these artists confront the question of how we represent the ‘human’ today. Encompassing a wide array of recent practices from hyper-realistic sculptures to near-abstract assemblages, The Human Factor focuses on works that relate to a human scale and explore a variety of social, political, cultural and historical concerns related to the modes of representation and appropriation of human body. The works revisit classical and archaic models of art as well as modernist sculpture and Minimalism. The exhibition comprises works that explore and question the ways that our society constructs identities, social positions and values.
Contributing artists: Pawel Althamer, Frank Benson, Huma Bhabha, Maurizio Cattelan, Urs Fischer, Katharina Fritsch, Ryan Gander, Isa Genzken, Rachel Harrison, Georg Herold, Thomas Hirschhorn, Martin Honert, Pierre Huyghe, Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, John Miller, Cady Noland, Ugo Rondinone, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Thomas Schütte, Paloma Varga Weisz, Mark Wallinger, Rebecca Warren, Andro Wekua and Cathy Wilkes.
The exhibition was supported by the Polish Cultural Institute in London.
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Source: Hayward Gallery’s press release, ed. GS, 12.06.2014