“Right from early art school,” said the British artist Helen Chadwick, “I wanted to use the body to create a sense of inner relationship with the audience.” Beginning in the 1970s, Chadwick made sculptures that explored the messy realities of corporeal life—anuses, tongues, urine. She worked with materials such as raw meat, chocolate, and rotting vegetables to create installations that were as sensuous as they were repellent. “I felt compelled to use materials that were still bodily, that were still a kind of self-portrait,” she explained, “but did not rely on representation of my own body.” Chadwick died suddenly of a heart attack in 1996, at just 42. This is her first major retrospective in more than 25 years. —Elena Clavarino