In video, installation, and painted works, Marzena Nowak presents the human body as the site of psychic sensations and states of excitement. In the past, the artist has used a phrase from Freud, “Die Psyche ist ausgedehnt” (The psyche is expansive), to describe her project, representing a view of the body as both part of and an extended expression of internal processes. Experimental approaches to the body—measuring, localizing, temporalizing, and wounding it—constituted a central theme in the avant-garde art of the 1960s and ’70s, one that has remained an important component of