Viviane Sassen

Photo: © Viviane Sassen, Juno, from the series Modern Alchemy, 2022; Self-portrait, from the series Self-portraits, ca. 1994; Eudocimus Ruber, from the series Of Mud and Lotus, 2017; Hannibal, from the series Venus & Mercury, 2019

Have you ever looked at your body in the mirror and imagined it as something else – a shape, a form, a sculpture? As a child, Viviane Sassen did exactly that. She played with perspective, twisting her body into unfamiliar postures. Even then, contrary to dominant Western body ideals, she saw the body not as a fixed reality but as something fluid – something that could be reshaped and reimagined.

In The Body As Sculpture, on view from 7 March to 8 June 2025 at Fotografiska Berlin, you are invited to break free from conventional body image. Through self-portraits, surrealist collages and sculptural compositions, Sassen deconstructs and reconstructs the human body, shifting expectations and redefining how we engage with form. She invites you to see bodies anew, fragmented and full of possibility, inspiring not only an outer but also inner transformation.