The Graphic Body

Like cybernetic reimagining’s of early motion studies by Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne Jules Marey, my self-portraits invoke the graph as a measure of the physical and subjective body. Whereas classic photographers used the graphic spatialization of the body to progress scientific and medical understanding, my portraits reflect on the subject that has come about since then: the individual as a result of the accelerated and technological adaption of the human body to the analytical and scientific paradigms of modern life. The graph is the hegemonic spatial system of modern life–from maps and spreadsheets to MRIs and virtual reality–is practically inescapable. By projecting images of graphs onto my body, I am made visible only by the reflection of the image itself, and the viewer only perceives me by observing the subtle framework of lines undulating over and across my corporeal body.

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