Jessica Lichtenstein: Rewilding
About This Event
At the Museum of Arts and Design, Jessica Lichtenstein presents Rewilding, a live project that extends her exhibition-based practice into the gallery as a site where objects, bodies and attention share the same frame. Drawing on research and material process and using the female body as a mechanism, Lichtenstein probes power, representation, fetishism and commercialization through controlled shifts of space and gesture that favor clarity over spectacle.
About Rewilding
Ute Penk
At the Museum of Arts and Design, *Rewilding* considers ecological restoration as a cultural act, asking what it means to step back and let systems reorganize. The exhibition traces ideas of biodiversity and natural process, while acknowledging that today’s “nature” often includes new species and unfamiliar relationships. Featured performer Jessica Lichenstein extends the work into the live register, where the body becomes another site of adaptation and control. Its quiet provocation is that rewilding is less a return than a negotiation.
About the Artists
Jessica Lichenstein
Jessica Lichenstein is an artist whose work moves between exhibition-making and live presentation. In New York City, she has presented projects at the Museum of Arts and Design, including the live event *Jessica Lichenstein: Rewilding*.
Jessica Lichtenstein
Using the female body as a mechanism to explore deeper themes of power, female representation, fetishism and objectification, usually in an ironic and cheerful way, Lichtenstein’s work embodies the very paradox she is trying to explore.