NEW YORK, NY.- The FLAG Art Foundation is presenting S-Curve, a group exhibition bringing together artworks from the 18th century to present day that reflect on the human body in an active state of repose. Encompassing an array of eras, media, and formal approaches, the exhibition illustrates the elasticity of an art historical trope and underscores the complexities and possibilities present in contemporary depictions of the body.
While both academic and scientific representations of the human body privilege anatomical exactness—with strict attention paid to what can be codified and standardized—artists throughout history have just as often taken the body to be a gateway to so many fantastic and surreal forms. The artists in S-Curve interpret the figure at rest through its historically familiar expressions, such as the reclining nude, to more contemporary and challenging forms that see it as being between motion and stasis, between gender and subjectivity. Rather than situate the body as a form fixed and unchanged across time, the exhibition instead uses a wide historical lens to show how the human figure has, for centuries, been a constant source of surprise and invention.
Artists include Steven Assael (b. 1957), Cristina BanBan (b. 1987), Frank Benson (b. 1976), Louise Bonnet (b. 1970), PaulCadmus (1904-1999), Maurizio Cattelan (b. 1960), Amie Dicke (b. 1978), AwolErizku (b. 1988), Samuel Fosso (b. 1962), Sadao Hasegawa (1945-1999), AndréKertész (1894-1985), Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989), Simone Leigh (b.1967), Heather V McLeod, Henry Moore (1898-1986), Daido Moriyama (b. 1938), Ambrose Rhapsody Murray (b. 1996), Chris Ofili (b. 1968), Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1682-1754), Hiba Schahbaz, Sylvia Sleigh (1916-2010), Adriel Visoto (b. 1987), and Francesca Woodman (1958-1981).
Spotlight: Ludovic Nkoth
FEBRUARY 12-MARCH 14, 2026
The Spotlight series includes a new or never-before-exhibited artwork paired with a commissioned piece of writing, creating focused and thoughtful conversations between the visual arts and authors, critics, poets, scholars, and beyond. In this iteration, the Spotlight features Ludovic Nkoth’s Stars under the border, 2025.
Ludovic Nkoth (b. 1994, Yaoundé, Cameroon) is an artist living and working in New York, NY. Nkoth earned a BFA from the University of South Carolina Spartanburg, Spartanburg, SC, and an MFA from Hunter College, New York, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy and London, United Kingdom; François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA; Maison La Roche, Paris, France; and Pond Society, Shanghai, China. His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including at David Zwirner, New York, NY; Gallery Baton, Seoul, Korea; Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini, Rome, Italy; The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; and Aishti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon. Nkoth’s work is included of the permanent collections of the Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; The Studio Museum, New York, NY; the Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China; and the Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL; among others.
