Expanded Bodies

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Expanded Bodies

Bodies become porous in this series—stretching across materials, technologies, and shared environments. Expanded Bodies explores how embodiment is constantly reconfigured through movement, connection, and transformation, revealing the self as an evolving field rather than a contained form

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Expanded Bodies investigates how contemporary embodiment exceeds the limits of the human form. In a world shaped by digital interfaces, hybrid materials, and shifting ecologies, the body becomes a site of extension, adaptation, and reinvention.

Bodies extend far beyond the limits of skin. They stretch into tools, screens, materials, and the environments they inhabit. Through the work of contemporary artists across mediums, Expanded Bodies explores how gestures, technologies, and ecologies reshape the boundaries of embodiment. Each chapter opens a different point of entry: from hybrid forms where matter and organism converge, to digital selves that fracture, multiply, and mutate.

These practices resist the notion of the body as singular or fixed. Instead, they dwell in fluid states—where movement becomes memory, interfaces become organs, and environments act as collaborators rather than backdrops. Expanded Bodies invites us to consider how our physical and virtual forms continually overlap, extend, and transform, revealing embodiment as a shifting territory shaped by relation, imagination, and the worlds we build around us.

Episodes

Individual artist spotlights examining how their practice relates to the series theme.

Episode 1Daisy CollingridgeDaisy Collingridge’s sculptural, quilted bodies transform the hidden interior into vivid, tactile form, revealing the human body as universal, playful, and endlessly reimagined.

Episode 2Roxane RevonIn the spirit of Expanded Bodies, Roxane Revon creates biomaterial works where human and plant forms intertwine, revealing embodiment as a living, shifting ecology.

Episode 3Alexandria CoeAlexandria Coe’s minimal, expressive figures reclaim nakedness from the weight of social metaphor, offering a clear, intimate lens beyond the constraints placed on women’s bodies.

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ArtistDaisy Collingridge1990, British

ArtistRoxane Revon1986, French

ArtistAlexandria Coe1990, British

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