Saturday, August 8, 2015

'Doctor Death' Bodies


I've always been fascinated by the idea+content of the infamous 'Body Show.' Although it seems there are various incarnations of it worldwide, including:


My recent line of work has made me think about this... the idea of 'medical' material on display, science on exhibition, the place where the science/medical world meets the art world; the process itself of deconstruction, extraction, + plasticisation; and fundamentally, a sort of universal 'sick fascination', the human desire to dissect, understand, preserve, and display...





(this post is to point out the link/influence between these bodies and my latest outcomes)