Alles gleich schwer

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Helmut Lang is mainly known for his minimal, deconstructivist, and often severe fashion designs. His most recent body of work exhibited at kestnergesellschaft, Hanover in 2008 marked the logical conclusion to a constantly rearranging equation. Turning away from the physical body and its social articulation through clothes, Lang created a series of objects that addressed the intersection of public and private experience as it is recorded through mythologies both personal and shared. Throughout the exhibition new works explored and developed the social and physical membranes between interior and exterior, identities and spaces. Drawing on references as diverse as the folkloric rites of maypole ceremonies and the exploration of surrogate skin, Lang created a series of installations and objects that integrated an intimate knowledge of the human form with the personal mythologies and abstract arrangements of the world at large. English and German text.