Like Life The Like Life exhibition at the Met Bruere confronted varying depictions of the human body ranging from the idealized white figures of antiquity to hyper-realistic silicone molds that were practically indiscernible from a real person. Themes of the depiction of flesh, articulation, skin and surface, and personal identity were addressed with examples from 1300 to the present. This was a welcome difference from the typical museum collections of classically ideal figures that can only be talked about in terms of form and not through their emulation of life. Many were related to aging and the life/death process, others were celebrations of the materiality of the body. Some of the work dealt with the inherent visceral quality of the human body, sometimes showing only a limb or a heap that had the qualities of flesh. The exhibition was structured not in a chronological, but a thematic order, which really helped enliven the show. For example, works regarding the...