With NAME Emma Walch focuses on the idealized body. Through the use of different materials she investigates how beauty is perceived and how these standards are upheld. The skin is an organ that offers the possibilities of being reconstructed. The reconstruction or removal of the skin from the face or the body is accompanied by an attempt to strip away the anthropomorphism of the skin. By the skin not being anthropomorphic, we are willing to push the boundaries of our pain threshold for the sake of beauty.
For AbsurdBeings on skin Emma Walch is showing an installation of zoomed in body parts made out of mixed materials (rubber plaster and beauty tools) which are showing the torture we are willing to put our non-anthropomorphic skin through. Walch incorporates moving self-punishing beauty tools. The tools and the sculpture interact through stimulating massage, electric shock, and shaking.