Participating artists: Farrah Carbonell, Dancevatar, Maria Fynsk Norup, Natalie Karpushenko, Lindsay Kokoska, Christy Lee Rogers, SERIFA, Ivona Tau, X New Worlds, Zhuk
Load Editions inaugurates its Miami chapter with Bodyscapes, a group exhibition featuring fourteen female artists working across photography, AI, video, and performance. The exhibition explores the body not as an object, but as a site—a terrain shaped by memory, emotion, political and social pressure.
What does it mean to inhabit a body—or a place? Bodyscapes begins with this question, tracing how artists turn the body into terrain, a site where emotions, memories, and meanings unfold.
Through the eyes of fourteen female artists, the body undergoes transformations, deformations, and mutations:challenging beauty standards, mirroring the endless loop of social media validation, defying gravity in search of freedom without ever leaving itself.Some bodies remain whole, quiet, grounded, insisting on their right simply to exist. In these works, the body is a sanctuary, a space for healing and connection with the inner self and nature. Finally, the digital bodies in the exhibition reflect the same embodied approach: they speak not of escape or disembodiment, but of inhabiting the virtual realm through the body—living with it, rather than attempting to leave it behind.
Across photography, AI, video, and performance, the body speaks for itself. Nature appears not as backdrop but as collaborator, particularly in the recurring presence of water, which functions as a lens and a force of becoming. What unites the works in the exhibition is a shared understanding of the body not as separate from spirit or nature, but as fully integrated, positioned within a larger ecological and existential order.The body is neither object nor ornament; it is a living part of the world’s fabric, as vital and complex as any landscape.
About Load Editions
Load Editions is a new initiative designed to expand Load’s programming to a global audience through a network of temporary spaces in cities worldwide. The first chapter, Miami Edition, launches in collaboration with Jayaram Law, a leading legal advisory firm specialising in intellectual property.
Excerpted from the official press release courtesy of Load.
