Jeanne Dunning has made an object called the "blob" -- an amorphous, skin-colored sack filled with a viscous substance that: crushes, oozes out, takes a bath with or sleeps with the subject. She uses it in a wide body of work to investigate the nature of corporeality.
Tomio Koyama Gallery has been transformed by a skin- colored curtain, a video installation and photographs into a probe of the body and skin as detached from self, to give the viewer the opportunity to ponder the visceral but tenuous connection we have with our physical being. A beige pinkish material that is hung across the windows, and filters the light from outside represents the "skin."
"The curtain in the gallery is not the same material as the blob," said Dunning, who traveled from America to be at the opening, "but the reason why that curtain is there is because I was thinking about skin, and how skin is the border between the inside and the outside of the body.