ON DISPLAY

ON DISPLAY is a durational work- a deconstructed art exhibit and commentary on the body as spectacle and society's obsession with body image.  Heidi Latsky’s response to the stigma attached to difference, ON DISPLAY turns a cast of diverse and extreme bodies into a sculpture court where the performers are the sculptures.

We’ve always been taught not to stare; not to look at someone deeply because it might offend them; that if someone “different” catches our eye we have objectified them. This is the life of the viewer.

Alternatively, should we possess a birthmark, a glorious height, or unknown disability we risk being ostracized. This is the life of the viewed.

For both the viewer and viewed, there are harsh limitations – the viewer does not have time to see beyond appearances and the viewed risks only being seen as other.

Can a dynamic, safe space for both to truly look and experience each other exist?

We are disrupting space.

Since 2015, ON DISPLAY has inhabited more than 200 public and private spaces with as many as 650 participants in a single installation. By exposing the general public to our widely diverse sculpture courts, we are expanding what inclusion looks like.

We are dismantling normal.

By inviting us to enter into a utopian, democratic world which defies stereotypes, HLD exemplifies an ideal model of how we might and should exist.

We are redefining beauty.

The company brings together performers who are disabled, non-disabled and of varying ages, sizes, and races in works designed to lean into each individual’s strengths where everyone has an equal role.

Wearable Art

Since 2016, NuVu Studios & Rosa Weinberg  have designed wearable art pieces for ON DISPLAY