“Sensing Out Loud: I Am the Last Woman Object” is dedicated to questions of embodiment and corporealities beyond binary models of gender. The historical works of the artist Nicola L. (1937–2018), who was born in Morocco and grew up in Paris, form the perceptual framework for current sound works by three graduates of the Bachelor Fine Arts program. Martina M. Mächler, Tobias Rüetschi, and André Veigas take the furniture sculptures, which Nicola L. also dubbed “functional sculptures,” as a starting point, expand and subvert them. In this way, the exhibition plays with the juxtaposition of sensual perception and mental classification, and at the same time, destabilizes the categories invoked. It is NEST‘s second exhibition in cooperation with the Ursula Hauser Collection. With its focus on 20th and 21st-century women artists, it is one of the most important collections of contemporary art in the world. The collaboration provides a framework for working with collection loans in teaching and research.

Curated by Elsa Himmer and Gabrielle Schaad.

December 16, 2021–February 3, 2022
Opening: Thursday, December 16, 2021