Jessica Lichtenstein: Rewilding
About This Event
Jessica Lichtenstein’s Rewilding is a live presentation at the Museum of Arts and Design that brings her exhibition-based practice into the gallery as a shared frame for objects, bodies and attention. Drawing on research and material process, Lichtenstein uses controlled shifts in space and gesture and foregrounds the female body to examine power, representation, fetishism and objectification.
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.