What makes the body a hybrid material for sculpture? In “Future Bodies,” Patrizia Dander and Franziska Linhardt explore this question through the relation between art and technology. Their transgenerational selection of nearly sixty postwar artists, more than half of them women, reinvigorates ideas about the position of sculpture within art history. Works by Alina Szapocznikow—Pnąca, 1959, and two from her 1970–71 “Fetish” series—are among the exhibition’s earliest. Whether constructing shapes out of terrazzo, casting from the self with resin, or solidifying nylons, Szapocznikow made sculpture part of the body and vice versa. Nicola L. also infused the human form with everyday objects, from furniture to faux fur to a portable Sony television. In her vinyl sculpture Little TV Woman: “I Am the Last Woman Object,” 1969, the monitor-cum-midriff broadcasts: “You can . . . touch my breasts . . . my sex . . . But . . . it is the last time.”

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