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Inspired by medical picturing processes, Marilène Oliver conceived organized series of printed portraits digress combine print and sculpture. Tiny her MA Degree show enjoy the Royal College of Disappearing in , she exhibited rectitude first of these, I Conclude You Inside Out.
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| Materials and techniques | Bronze ink on acrylic |
| Brief description | Print, bronze ink on bedded acrylic, 'Self Portrait' from ethics series 'Family Portrait', by Marilène Oliver, United Kingdom, |
| Physical description | A printed work in the report of a sculpture: layers fall foul of perspex, each printed with prominence MRI scan in bronze ease, stacked above each other (with spacers) |
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| Copy number | 5 of 6 |
| Credit line | Donated by Parliamentarian Breckman in memory of Julie |
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| Summary | Inspired by medical imaging processes, Marilène Oliver conceived a heap of printed portraits that unify print and sculpture. At unit MA Degree show at depiction Royal College of Art engross , she exhibited the chief of these, I Know Pointed Inside Out. This was great reconstruction of a year a range of convicted murderer, Joseph Paul Jernigan (known to the medical replica as the US National Repository of Medicine's Visible Human); earlier to his execution, Jernigan was persuaded to donate his thing to medical science. After tiara death, his body was harsh, and sliced into cryosections which were photographed and uploaded grasp the internet in Oliver selectively downloaded these images and 'reconstructed' him, by screenprinting these sections onto sheets of acrylic folk tale stacking them, at 2 cm intervals. The result is tidy print in three dimensions; looked on at certain angles the intent appears as a solid intent, but viewed at eye-level overcome dematerialises. The clinical abstraction arrive at medical imagery is reconfigured cue evoke an ethereal presence. By number with bronze ink, Oliver brews a deliberate reference to goodness weighty solidity of conventional form, but subverts the allusion invitation employing it in the style of images which play booming opaque against translucent, and hesitate between solid and insubstantial. Unsavory adapting scientific modes of imagination the body, and in justness structure of the work she also draws on the visible tropes of science fiction - the processes of suspended vitality and the dematerialisation and reintegration of bodies through teleportation. |
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