‘to ignite our skin’ featuring Elaine Cameron-Weir at Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY, United States

11 September 2025

From 18 September – 22 December 2025, Sculpture Center presents ‘to ignite our skin’ featuring Elaine Cameron-Weir. This exhibition features newly commissioned and recent works from an international group of artists whose contributions, spanning sculpture, installation, photography, and architectural intervention, explore shedding as a condition of the body today, locating it as an act of transition, becoming, regeneration, and refusal.

Like a snake undergoing ecdysis or the peeling of a scab, the artworks embrace the image of replacing one’s own skin, with its opulent decay and raw vulnerability, navigating the uneasy tension between the intrinsic desire to evade capture through transformation and neoliberal-driven tech’s sinister demand for perpetual reinvention. Taking precarious sculpture as the departure point, the exhibition features works that are texturally layered and pieced together from a hybrid of materials weathered by or forged through the body: worn clothes, collected debris, scavenged organic matter, tattered construction material, remnants of military ware, or AI-generated—discarded, found, recovered, composed, and rewrought into embodiments of the in-between.

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Image: Elaine Cameron-Weir, abattoir frontage (cracked herd), 2025, detail. Photo by Charles White, Courtesy of Jeffrey Deitch.