between a thing and its outside
a project exploring the limits of representation
SciLifeLab, Stockholm 2023
Optic view - Art on SciLifeLab project/course
A collaboration between the Royal Institute of Art and SciLifeLab, a national resource of unique technologies and expertise available to life scientists, closely intertwined with our community of researchers in areas such as biomedicine, ecology and evolution.
My research contacts: Tony Ullman, Marion Korach-André and Leire Alonso Galici
My work often explore perception and the role of images and experimental production, this ultimately became my inquiry and work-in-progress output. The sheer complexities of the researcher simage production in context of data per image and questions around storage became a starting point for me as well. Similar to my own life but yet on this much larger scale. Both Tonys bladder cancer research and Leire and Marions breast cancer and spatial transcriptomics research produced incredibly beautiful imagery, material I found fascinating but struggled with how to approach, ultimately landing in my work as a respons to their imaging techniques, ideas around data and representation, or the limits of thereof. In essence, I created my own imaging techniques to explore the unseen, using image processing apps on my mobile phone in ways they were not intended for, pushing the imaging process and digital data and grain to its peak - to see what the apparatus sees. Not what I see. Focusing on both the micro and macro and further translating the material through layers of re-photographing and printing techniques, culminating in a contrapuntal, lofi analogue outpu that tangentially connects to a mode of creating images of theimperceptible and the unrevealed.
