The idea of curators Marian and Jan Leo Grau was to introduce an exhibition format to accompany the body and beach rituals and nude culture of the resort town that would present different points of view regarding gender issues. Woman & Woman and Man & Man are not traditional exhibitions of nudes – the artists selected for the exhibition reveal their interpretations of gender identity, and try to make sense of the various positions of women and men in modern society, with each interpreting the features of masculinity or femininity in their own way.
