Artists at Point Blank propose the body is a battleground

The body is a battleground for the constant construction and reconstruction of meaning—a process brought to the forefront in the aptly titled “Bodybuilder” on view at Point Blank in Logan Square. There, curators Gia Theodoropoulos and Connor Totten have staged an intense confrontation with the human form, forcing a reconsideration of how we reckon with it in a post-Internet world.

Inkjet prints by Reeves Beckley underscore how the body can become an alienated object for entertainment when we are inundated with its images. Beckley’s prints appear to be pulled from early 2000s home videos: a still image of two young children in a bathtub, a close-up of a man throwing back a beer, kids playfully curled up in dog crates. The images share the bulging warp and RGB color model of cathode-ray tub