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Susanna Strati
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Implements
From the archives, 1998 -2000. This work is led by a scientific curiosity and fascination for the anatomy of the body. Surgical implements map and dissect the body while pursuing its contours probing and poking its hollow spaces. The work explores the relationship of hand held tools and the body. Illustrations of the dissected body (appropriated from the Sobotta Atlas of Human Anatomy) are illuminated by light boxes and are accompanied by an arrangement of surgical implements that slice, split and search the body. The anatomy reveals the interior forms of the body - while the invading scissors and blades disclose hidden acts performed by the likes of surgeons and anatomists. Tactile cuts consider wounds and bodily organs, and pry apart muscle from bone in order to make the unseen seen.©


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