SomoS Arts invites you to the opening of Shed, a solo exhibition by New York City-based Artist-in-Residence Eloise Harcourt. Her new group of sculptures, developed during her residency at SomoS, creates an exhibition in which the tension between care and control takes a physical form. Shaped by analyzing medical systems, reproductive violence, and institutional regimes of care, Harcourt’s work asks where support ends and discipline begins. Harcourt creates sculptural situations in which soft, sagging bodily surfaces rest against rigid frames.
Working with materials and textures that evoke skin, hair, folds, and bodily structures, Harcourt has turned the gallery into an immersive environment of containment and exposure. Rather than presenting the body in its idealized notion, Shed gives form to distortion and resistance, where the body is both deeply personal and strangely objectified. The exhibition extends questions central to Harcourt’s recent practice, in which intimate bodily experience is measured against the social and institutional structures that manage and correct it.
Harcourt’s sculptural language invites viewers to register small bodily reactions like discomfort, empathy, and curiosity, as part of the work itself, immersing the viewer in the dynamics of looking, caring, and controlling. The closing Artist Talk will bring visitors into Harcourt’s process, tracing how her research into medical history, reproductive violence, and everyday tools of control informs the sculptural language of Shed.
The exhibition will open on Tuesday, April 21 at 7 p.m., and a special program is offered from Friday, May 1, until Sunday, May 3, as part of the Sellerie Weekend Festival, a city-wide festival that brings together the programs of project spaces in Berlin over the weekend, from Friday 1, May until Sunday, May 3.
Tuesday April 21: Opening from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m.
Friday, May 1: Walkthrough with the artist at 7 p.m. as part of Sellerie Weekend
Sunday, May 3: Artist Talk at 4 p.m. as part of Sellerie Weekend
Saturday, May 9: Finissage Exhibition
For more information visit: https://somos-arts.org/eloise-harcourt-shed/
SomoS Arts
Kottbusser Damm 95, 1. OG, 10967 Berlin
Opening: Tuesday, April 21, 7–9 PM
Exhibition: Wednesday, April 22 – Saturday, May 9, 2–7 PM
Free Entry
Event Venue
SomoS Arts, Kottbusser Damm 95, 1. OG, 10967 Berlin , Berlin, United States
