In this exhibition held at Gas Art Gallery, two Austrian artists, Ulrike Lienbacher and Eva Schlegel deal with the theme of the body as a diaphragm between the inner and the outer dimension of individuals in their relationship with society. Although using different media, both artists show a similar sensitivity and an interest for similar themes. In her pencil on paper works, Ulrike Lienbacher draws neat, precise signs that hint at women's gestural expressiveness and subtly, ambiguously play with serpentine-shaped, evocative resin sculptures. Lienbacher analyses the female figure in its relationship with the notion of cleanness and hygiene, as metaphors of order, alternating them with dirt and untidiness as metaphors of disorder or lack of order. Order and disorder alternate and become rules for behavior, unwritten social codes expressed and interpreted by the body. In everyday life we have expectations about order and control that are often let down. The openly erotic references contained in many of the artist's drawings evoke a scenario where this failure anxiety and loss of control can be avoided through a promise that can also have pleasant aspects. Using photography, Eva Schlegel analyses female figures taken from magazine and newspaper covers or from TV frames. These sleek silhouettes, with their blurred outlines, get their meaning from the annihilation of the esthetic of the body, which allows the spectator to imagine a deeper inner world. The next step in this analytical process is the shift from whole figure to portrait and negative figure, the latter being treated with a photographic technique that clearly reveals a painterly sensitivity. Thus oversized figures alternate with the peculiarity of portraits and the dramatic, poetic effect of the negative, as if the artist wanted to capture new meanings, ever-changing, intimate reading keys. The work of both artists therefore bears witness to an artistic research that tries to narrate – through images, lines and forms - the unexplainable, the unsaid: thoughts, drives, emotional and brain patterns. The female body is often the privileged channel through which these patterns can come alive and somehow get materialized. The catalogue of the exhibition The body.