operation

steel, green plate glass, wax

installation of three hanging structures of glass and steel to create the environment of an "operating room".

The color of the glass and lighting provided stark, sterile conditions, to display "operations" on wax casts of an arm. The cold environment was reinforced by the disembodiment of the arms (not bound to a complete figure) and the artificial color of the wax.
The perfect incisions, made without reference to illness or injury, called attention to the contradiction between the sterility of the medical setting and the presumably organic nature of the subjects. In this environment, the brilliance of the advancement of science and medical technologies seem to alienate the complex human subject they are designed to heal.


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