studio 8 June 2020


Back in Canada, but the Munich Project continues.

THANK YOU:

Dr. Christiane Menzfeld
Brigitte Schwörer
Lisa Breyer
Dr. Sabine Suppmann
Ieulian Iermak
Mahesh Lingaraju
Songwei He
Albrecht Herrmann
Thomas Linsmayer
Martin Rohmer
Carmen Nöhbauer
Ingeborg Ott
Päivi Naskali-Schrank
Uli Schaarschmidt
Mary Ann Wilson
Heather MacIsaac
Else Gebauer
 


This series is called Run Vitruvian. It is a sequential adaptation of Leonardo's famous Vitruvian Man, which represented the body as the measure of nature through math and architecture, seen through the lens of Renaissance perspective. My running figure places the body in a world defined by the constantly evolving frame of reference set by the New Physics and New Genetics, a world where physical and biological boundaries that were once fixed are now mutable and malleable. Our current world circumstances keep bearing this out. 

What they study at Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry is not strictly visible. The nature of proteins, molecules, cells, viruses, are not seen but deciphered from instrument data. My running figure functions as a reference framework that is able to picture any varied relation of the body to its surroundings and circumstances. Examples:

• The balance between foreign but symbiotic resident microbes and our own cells.
  
• The aerodynamics around our bodies that allow us to repel airborne viruses.
  
• The non-stop replenishment of our cells, and how the body constantly reconstructs itself.
  
• The body as a system of proteins fuelled by chemical fires, operating in a world that is
  fundamentally a swarm of electrons.
  

 

RUN VITRUVIAN 1 

4.2020  oil on canvas  183 cm X 152.5 cm  

RUN VITRUVIAN 2

4.2020  oil on canvas  183 cm X 152.5 cm