Rethinking the Body. Curating the Human Form in Contemporary Visual Art Exhibitions
Rethinking the Body. Curating the Human Form in Contemporary Visual Art Exhibitions

Summary/Abstract: This paper explores how curating the human form in contemporary visual art exhibitions can generate new critical relations between corporeality, space, and heritage. Taking the exhibition Utopian Body by Claudiu Ciobanu (Artep Gallery, 2024), curated by the author, as a point of departure, it investigates how artistic practices translate Michel Foucault’s philosophical reflections from Utopian Body (1966) into visual and spatial experiences. The paper situates the exhibition within the broader discourse connecting contemporary arts and historic environments, arguing that the curatorial act can function as an epistemological tool for rethinking the body not only as a subject of representation but as a living interface between memory and imagination. Through analytical reflection on aesthetics and curatorial methodologies, the study proposes that the exhibition format becomes a medium of philosophical speculation where the body, displaced yet grounded, operates as both archive and utopia of human experience.

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