bemused by the cod sensationalism of

Does the highlighted sentence want to say that

1. "these curators exhibited works that presented cod sensationalism of the scary body art voguish in some areas of the art world (an exhibition that shows their interest in such feelings)"?

or

2. "the curators in order to show their disapproval of cod sensationalism of the scary body art voguish in some areas of the art world, established this exhibition (an exhibition against such feelings)"?

Context:

The presentation of the corpse in historical collections, whether whole, dissected or in component parts, is more profoundly strange because there lingers a sense of devotional reverence we can no longer share. One suspects that Martin Kemp and Marina Wallace, curators of the Hayward Gallery’s 2000–2001 exhibition Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now, were bemused by the cod sensationalism of the scary body art voguish in some areas of the art world. Their trawl of medical museums across Europe brought to the fore a heap of glistening viscera, in paint, drawing, early photograph, wax model or actual specimen. The exhibition demonstrates how radically attitudes to the body can change.