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Gallery
view, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne |
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| Virus
#B. 135x135cm |
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| Hand.
110x180cm |
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Anatomies
Digital prints
Torso
(on back wall) 180 x 130cm
Laser prints on polyester film
1993 This work was about the attitude of the scientific
image (digital image) to the human body. Despite the rationalism
of the technology some 'residue' of humanity exists - for example
in the elegance of the neck or the expression of the hand. The torso
is almost classical but the surface has 'gaps' (negative space)
which suggests an intrusion different from dissection.
Leibnitz countered Descartes' mechanistic idea of the
body by proposing that units of energy called monads 'animated'
living things. The virus images referred to both the human and computer
virus and to a type of energy (a monad?) that might be in the body.
Derived from electron scanning microscope images the source and
scale of the original objects are ambigious.
This work was produced using a combination of studio
based photography and digital imaging. The images are pinned directly
to the gallery wall in the manner of an anatomical chart.
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