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Second Skin hypha-gallery-east-village Rather thanSecond Skin examines the body as a site of control, transformation, and desire, shaped by pressures of self idealisation and the social codes that enforce them. A sensuous yet synthetic latex form is stretched, pierced, and constrained within an unyielding steel frame. Its hourglass silhouette evokes tensions between submission and resistance, confronting the violence of internalised ideals. Alluding to historical mechanisms of bodily control used to