Embodied States - Blood and Ink project Installation
Embodied States - Blood and Ink project
Modern imagery teaches us that Petri Dish hosts cultures of live matter, and represents micro universes of simulation of our greater organs and bodies in a controlled miracle of life. In our brave new world of interventions, matter on the other side, is still mostly considered an inert and passive component to life.
The works presented challenge this separation and play with the subtle line between alive and dead, here embodied by blood and ink and our human perception of both aspects when immersed in the micro-cosmos of the Petri Dish.
On one side red (the artist's blood) embodies life in its potency and black (ink) recalls death, yet from an inversed perspective spilled blood is a sign of death while the ink (Japanese ink used for Calligraphy) recalls the traces left behind by long collective traditions, traces which immortalize our thoughts and images beyond the lifetime of our mortal bodies.
Images are grown in the Petri dish by the artist, who is curating by measured interventions, framing and capturing the emergent structures, upon a borderline between scientific investigation and pure aesthetic.
The navigation of ambiguity at the meeting point between categories of substances and modes is left to the observer and the way in which the mesmerizing patterns pulls him or her into embodied states.
Experience
The images exist on the threshold between the 'organic' and the 'abstract', between 'matter' and pattern, while the colors are used as 'signs'. They suggest an ambiance, an atmosphere, emerging out of the poetic arrangement of the blood and ink, so that the installation does not impose an experience upon the visitor but tease a complex one.
The Petri Dish images, in them selves, attract a mode of observation, and the display of 9 images, which refers to a 'mandala' structure attract an absorptive mode. Both modes in conjunction with the ambience of the colors invite an aesthetic mode of sensibility.
The interaction between those states (observation, absorption aesthetic) is what the visitor will experience, standing in front of the works must be allowed in the space with some room and absorption. So that standing in front the display will intrigue a slight change in the conscious state of the beholder.
Artist
J. D. Doria, An interdisciplinary artist works and lives in Tel Aviv and has exhibited his works internationally in Tel Aviv, Rome, Milan, Paris and Munich among others. His work matures at the intersections between art and technology, and between art and science. His background in cinema allows him to capture unexpected dynamic qualities in his works, which stems from painting, and evolves through scanning technology and photography into generative art. Among his exhibited projects, Painting as a multitude, Organic Memory and the Petri Dish Project.
Embodied States - Blood and Ink project
Modern imagery teaches us that Petri Dish hosts cultures of live matter, and represents micro universes of simulation of our greater organs and bodies in a controlled miracle of life. In our brave new world of interventions, matter on the other side, is still mostly considered an inert and passive component to life.
The works presented challenge this separation and play with the subtle line between alive and dead, here embodied by blood and ink and our human perception of both aspects when immersed in the micro-cosmos of the Petri Dish.
On one side red (the artist's blood) embodies life in its potency and black (ink) recalls death, yet from an inversed perspective spilled blood is a sign of death while the ink (Japanese ink used for Calligraphy) recalls the traces left behind by long collective traditions, traces which immortalize our thoughts and images beyond the lifetime of our mortal bodies.
Images are grown in the Petri dish by the artist, who is curating by measured interventions, framing and capturing the emergent structures, upon a borderline between scientific investigation and pure aesthetic.
The navigation of ambiguity at the meeting point between categories of substances and modes is left to the observer and the way in which the mesmerizing patterns pulls him or her into embodied states.
Experience
The images exist on the threshold between the 'organic' and the 'abstract', between 'matter' and pattern, while the colors are used as 'signs'. They suggest an ambiance, an atmosphere, emerging out of the poetic arrangement of the blood and ink, so that the installation does not impose an experience upon the visitor but tease a complex one.
The Petri Dish images, in them selves, attract a mode of observation, and the display of 9 images, which refers to a 'mandala' structure attract an absorptive mode. Both modes in conjunction with the ambience of the colors invite an aesthetic mode of sensibility.
The interaction between those states (observation, absorption aesthetic) is what the visitor will experience, standing in front of the works must be allowed in the space with some room and absorption. So that standing in front the display will intrigue a slight change in the conscious state of the beholder.
Artist
J. D. Doria, An interdisciplinary artist works and lives in Tel Aviv and has exhibited his works internationally in Tel Aviv, Rome, Milan, Paris and Munich among others. His work matures at the intersections between art and technology, and between art and science. His background in cinema allows him to capture unexpected dynamic qualities in his works, which stems from painting, and evolves through scanning technology and photography into generative art. Among his exhibited projects, Painting as a multitude, Organic Memory and the Petri Dish Project.
