New Skin for the Old Ceremony @ Offline

New Skin for the Old Ceremony is a sculpture exhibition curated by India Price and Jess Reytblat exploring embodiment in the digital age.

Bringing together an intergenerational group of contemporary artists, the exhibition reimagines the possibilities of sculpture in the digital era, where the physical, spiritual, and virtual converge. Borrowing its title from Leonard Cohen’s 1974 record, New Skin for the Old Ceremony evokes a spirit of renewal and experimentation, reflecting the artists’ engagement with contemporary materials and digital-age narratives.

In an age defined by hyper-connectivity and digital mediation, New Skin for the Old Ceremony explores how contemporary artists use sculpture to navigate embodiment, memory, and material transformation.

The exhibition reflects a spectrum of responses to the digital condition—some artists embrace computational tools, AI, and digital archives, while others intentionally return to handcraft and analogprocesses. Across these diverse approaches, each work grapples with how inherited symbols, rituals, and forms can be re-coded for the present moment.