Series: The Archival Body
Title: We Can See Them Gradually Dissolving
Year: 2015
Medium: sculpture and photography | resin casts, archival digital prints, glass, LED light panels, steel
Dimension: various (sculpture), 26 x 20 in each, seven in total (photograph)
venue: Archetype Factory, Taipei / Daegu Exhibition & Convention Center, South Korea
We Can See Them Gradually Dissolving comprises clear resin sculptures cast from various medical anatomy models and their photographs hung next to the sculptures in the exhibitions. Red-colored tints inside the casts symbolize suspicious entities that are either expanding or disappearing. When a patient’s life relies on the artificial controls of abnormal cells and a doctor’s X-ray reading, what we can use to endoscope and predict the future of lives is rather singular. I photographed the casts from a perspective much like that of a doctor re-examining them, to question decision-making through the human eye. The title of this piece is one of the quotes I remember from a doctor’s words.
Photography (exhibition view) by Liang-Pin Tsao
Photography (artwork) by Jia-Jen Lin
