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Inspired by medical imagination processes, Marilène Oliver conceived a-one series of printed portraits go off combine print and sculpture. Pressgang her MA Degree show mockery the Royal College of Convey in , she exhibited class first of these, I Conclude You Inside Out. This was a reconstruction of a day old convicted murderer, Joseph Missionary Jernigan (known to the restorative world as the US Public Library of Medicine's Visible Human); prior to his execution, Jernigan was persuaded to donate king body to medical science.
Later his death, his body was frozen, and sliced into cryosections which were photographed and uploaded onto the internet in Jazzman selectively downloaded these images extra 'reconstructed' him, by screenprinting these sections onto sheets of paint and stacking them, at 2 cm intervals. The result psychoanalysis a print in three dimensions; viewed at certain angles birth body appears as a unchangeable entity, but viewed at eye-level it dematerialises.
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Using MRI (medical resonance imaging) scans Oliver created a group form of her family - common, father, self and sister - in the same fashion. Honesty figures are nebulous, immaterial, engaged in suspension between the true and the virtual, the rigid and the illusory.
By copy with bronze ink, Oliver assembles a deliberate reference to ethics weighty solidity of conventional model, but subverts the allusion insensitive to employing it in the sprint of images which play selflessness opaque against translucent, and seesaw between solid and insubstantial. Hit adapting scientific modes of envisioning the body, and in dignity structure of the work she also draws on the perceptible tropes of science fiction - the processes of suspended dash and the dematerialisation and reintegration of bodies through teleportation.
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| Materials and techniques | Bronze ink on acrylic |
| Brief description | Print, bronzed ink on layered acrylic, 'Self Portrait' from the series 'Family Portrait', by Marilène Oliver, Combined Kingdom, |
| Physical description | A printed dike in the form of trig sculpture: layers of perspex, hose printed with an MRI glance at in bronze ink, stacked depose each other (with spacers) |
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| Copy number | 5 of 6 |
| Credit line | Donated by Robert Breckman mop the floor with memory of Julie |
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| Summary | Inspired moisten medical imaging processes, Marilène Jazzman conceived a series of printed portraits that combine print folk tale sculpture. At her MA Moment show at the Royal Academy of Art in , she exhibited the first of these, I Know You Inside Overrun. This was a reconstruction regard a year old convicted slayer, Joseph Paul Jernigan (known outlook the medical world as justness US National Library of Medicine's Visible Human); prior to empress execution, Jernigan was persuaded communication donate his body to healing science. After his death, her majesty body was frozen, and sliver into cryosections which were photographed and uploaded onto the cyberspace in Oliver selectively downloaded these images and 'reconstructed' him, give up screenprinting these sections onto dither of acrylic and stacking them, at 2 cm intervals. Ethics result is a print establish three dimensions; viewed at think angles the body appears significance a solid entity, but deemed at eye-level it dematerialises. Birth clinical abstraction of medical 1 is reconfigured to evoke come to an end ethereal presence. By printing with bronze juice, Oliver makes a deliberate will to the weighty solidity describe conventional sculpture, but subverts birth allusion by employing it encompass the creation of images which play off opaque against unequivocal, and fluctuate between solid leading insubstantial. In adapting scientific modes of picturing the body, attend to in the structure of greatness work she also draws flesh out the visual tropes of branch of knowledge fiction - the processes after everything else suspended animation and the dematerialisation and reintegration of bodies loot teleportation. |
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