'Chimera' movie
2014
Chimera is a project consisting of an ongoing material and visual research into a contestable future of the human body, in which the body is grown and cultivated. Here it has become an amalgam of the synthetic and the organic. Where synthetic processes mutate the skin into fungi like textures, like living organisms feeding off its host. Cellular structures constricting its carnality, growing in stasis, waiting to unveil its newly formed functions. This new malleable body has become a place where plastic parasitic substances emulate the immaterial. Intuitively revealing its architect.
These bodies guide us through an era where new technologies redefine the human form and test our understanding of what it means to be human. Moving away from our archaic self to a liquid self, that is continually undergoing construction and reconstruction. A world where the solid has become fluid and is in constant motion.
Textile
200x70 cm
2014
Fabrication excerpt
2014
'untitled body'
Photograph
2014
Fabrication process
2014
Selection textiles
2016
'Chimera' movie still
2014
'Chimera' movie excerpt
2014
Movie stills
2014
'untitled body'
Photography
2014
Fabrication process
2014
Textile
180x70cm
2014
Sculpture
61x32cm
2016
Detail of sculpture
2016
The technique has further developed into changing these two dimensional textures into 3D structures. The technique uses the same principle of layer-on-layer printing used in the additive manufacturing world but leaves a more autonomous context for the material to control its final outcome. The material is shaped by the same solution of calcium nitrate and water, using the water to influence the shape and texture. The chaos derived from working in this matter stands opposite of the structured addictive manufacturing techniques. Opening a new visual idiom for the additive manufacturing world. Whereby its form creates a dialogue between the made and its maker.
Technique used
Selected sculptures
various sizes
2016
Sculpture
28x15cm
2016
The collection consists of different pieces of liquid rubber latex, that emerge through the solidifying reaction of latex with calcium nitrate. Using this process, rubber latex can be produced into new outcomes unprecedented within the rubber latex industry.
The material collection resembles biological cellular structures, slime molds and fungi-like textures, that are created and formed like living and growing organisms. These textures are both organic and synthetic. Exploring the boundary between living matter and non living matter.
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