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Magenta Plains is jubilant to present A Detached Hand organized with independent curator and advisor, Nicole Will. The exhibition is an articulation of the “model of difference” put forth by the late art historian Linda Nochlin in her lecture from 1994, The Body in Pieces: The Fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity and includes work by fourteen artists who negotiate a discursive visual language of corporeal fragmentation and defy traditional representations of the figure.

The birth of modernity, ushered in by the French Revolution, sought to re-identify the semiotic relationship of part to whole …