The Soul is an exhibition that looks at the ways power comes to act through the interior self, through a person’s mental and emotional life. In composing the exhibition, and in our discussions with the contributors, we were interested in how power is mediated socially, in how major manifestations of power are linked to the aesthetics of everyday life. the exhi­bition treats the aesthetic dimension as a con­tested bridge between the psyche – a sub­jective entity – and the objective structures of a society.