Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres and Inflatable Structures

Like some benign infestation, bubbles (and related forms) seem to be springing up everywhere lately in contemporary art. Thin Skin brings together some of the most interesting work involving malleable, inflatable materials, including pieces by James Lee Byars, Charles and Ray Eames, Olafur Eliasson, Tom Friedman, Piero Manzoni, Pipilotti Rist, and Andy Warhol. Thin Skin identifies their current popularity as a function of our new awareness of "in-between" spaces and of our own bodies as permeable sensors in constant osmotic exchange. An original and thought-provoking accumulation of inflatables.