I was in Biennale 2003 - Venice part II - what is real?
An impressive series of ultrarealistic sculptures can make mad.
“We are family” is the title of Patricia Piccinini’s exhibition in the australian pavillion.
An excerpt from the Biennale web site:
“Who are “we” and what is a “family” in the biotech century, when we can engineer designer babies and know that our DNA is 98% the same as the chimpanzee?
Such questions are among many prompted by Patricia Piccinini’s exhibition at the 50th Venice Biennale. Piccinini’s art emerges from a deep personal understanding of the issues involved in medical intervention in human life. For over a decade she has explored new life-forms, creating an embryonic Lump in pig flesh in 1994, and since then making photographs, videos and sculptures that represent or embody synthetic life forms: from LUMP? to SO2 (inspired by scientists who synthesised DNA to create SO1, or Synthetic Organism) to the “stem cells” and “clones” in this exhibition.” (the complete article)
