A Survey of Hannah Wilke’s Work Traces Her Engagement with Bodily Vulnerability

Hannah Wilke appears lying on the floor, naked save for a neck brace, in a 1982 black-and-white photograph. The statement STAND UP HANNAH WILKE STAND UP is printed beneath the image on its mounting board. But the artist in fact seems unable to rise. Using headphones plugged into the board, visitors can listen to a song written and recorded by Wilke that instructs, “Stand up because you don’t belong. Stand up, if they’re too right, they’re wrong,” equating the physic