Uncanny Symmetry

Installation | 2019

Embedded within every object or body is a foundational substratum that serves as the basis for every visual and imaginative facet it will ever possess. In the context of ‘Uncanny Symmetry,’ the revealed tissue represents the formal matrix of a body, the scaffold on which its identity rests. The matter is obtained via biological decellularization, which strips out all the cells from a donor organ, keeping only the white, almost translucent connective tissue, and nothing else. Fiction is the only place in which the original identity still holds.