Second Skin

It's a exhibition at MOCA.the main idea about second skin is try to show the connection between a hidden interior or surface and the man-made between native.As advances in science dissolve the boundaries between technology and nature, a new organicism has emerged, expressed in the conjunction of artificial materials and fluid forms. As our bodies become more like industrial products-subject to miraculous procedures of maintenance, repair, and redesign-we expect objects to be more like us: responsive, erotic, and soft to the touch.

Second Skin presents examples of products, furniture, fashion, architecture, and media that are expanding the limits of the outer surface. Reflecting the convergence of natural and artificial life, the exhibition will show how enhanced and simulated skins
appear throughout the contemporary environment.

Second Skin is a sequel to Skin: Surface, Substance + Design, organized by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution in New York City, 2002. Second Skin contains new objects and projects as well as selected works from the original installation.