Traces (2009)

Traces is a renewable sculpture of the artist’s own disembodied kidney, cast in frozen spit. Every two hours a new frozen organ is put on display, only to melt and drip away. The artist carefully traced the topography of her internal organ from a 3D MRI in order to materialize its form outside of her body. Traces is a poetic deterritorialization of medical biotechnologies, organs without bodies and fleshy displacements.

Artist’s hands cast in aluminum & artist’s kidney cast in frozen spit from a 3D MRI.

· And Things of That Nature, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA (2009)

Funded by the MIT Council For the Arts · Ben Mauer · Krzysztof Wodiczko · Antoni Muntadas · Charles Mathis · Boo Chapple · Neil Gershenfeld · Wendy Jacob · Nate McDermott · Sangeeta Bhatia · Tom Lutz · Caroline Jones · Nova Benway · Jose Luis Blondet · Marianna Jakab · Claire Tempany · Levi Schmidt