Presently, a series of body photographs, light and video installations is shown under the title "Äußeres - Inneres" (Outside – Inside). What you see on the surface is all too often concerned with mere external details. But our senses register much more. But this "more" is rarely acknowledge on a higher level of consciousness, remaining subconscious or unconscious. So we don't often understand that what we see is only what we can see – depending on our respective background of experiences: a reflection of our own internal images. In other words: nothing is as it seems. |
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With some of the light installations, the "interior" represented by an X-ray image – and not the body – is shown in the foreground. The installations – like the body photographs – are untitled, with the exception of two works shown here ( "Traces" and "Spiral" )
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The body here is seen as a symbol for the "exterior". The medical details superimposed represent the "interior". The were produced in radiological examinations, such as conventional X-rays, computer or magnetic resonance tomography. You can find a short text on the background of our perception here.
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The moving picture uncovers processes happening inside the body. Thus, for example "Renal Arteries" shows the circulation of blood in the kidneys with every stroke of the heart, while "Heart" visualises the heart and the root of the main artery, the aorta.
The "Renal Arteries" and the kidneys are represented via angiography (visualisation of blood vessels by means of X-ray contrast media). The "pumping heart" is shown with a special magnetic resonance imaging technique called "phase contrast technique".
The latter magnetic resonance technique is part of a newly developed test protocol devised for patients whose aorta, because a congenital weakness of the connective tissue (Marfan's Syndrome ) could suddenly rupture without warning at any time (dissection, rupture), an event which much too often still almost certainly causes death. Since such an event is unpredictable, those threatened by it have to live with a permanent threat to their life.
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