Adolfo Bimer
Santiago, Chile
May 2-31, 2021
curated by Christian Viveros-Faune
Since about 10 years I have been developing an artistic practice that indagates on how medical imaging technologies represent the human body and how this images shape the cultural opinion we build of diseases and the people who have them. The shape of society formed with the introduction of a “Health” concept coming from Europe to Latin America can also be observed through these systems of representation and understandings of the human body, specially if compared with traditional types of medicine.
From file typologies such as microscopy, X rays, scanners and anatomical drawing, think how their signs match with material accidents that occur during studio experimentation. In this way, articulate a visual analogue logic translated into painting, digital photography, sculpture and objects. In my work, the sample becomes an image, a data and an object at a time.
The results elaborated by medical technologies are used here for the production of new images and visual information, generating so a language of distortion of reading and materic allegory about the affections that we as individuals carry. The disease visualized from its diagram and its sensitivity from the instrumental resource. We are humans resumed into data, and disease, a form of distance that brings us closer to the body.
Artist Links
Facebook: www.adolfobimer.com
Gallery Website: www.sagradamercancia.com