The body as flexible habitat from Arakawa and Gins to Lyle Ashton HarrisAustrian artist and curator AnnaSophie Berger here assembles a group of works that register the body as a habitat that can be imaginatively stretched altered modified adorned replicated or destroyed. The starting point for Berger were two designs for necklaces by the Surrealist Meret Oppenheimone resembling a babys legs wrapped around a neck and the other featuring a pendant with a grinning toothy mouth smoking a cigarette designed to hang at the softest part of the throat. In a similar spirit each work in Life and Limbs was chosen for its ability to trouble the limits of what a body can become from the metamorphosis that comes from wearing a garment to complete transfigurations into surreal new beings.