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Frozen Urin Hand | Latex Mould | May 2006
Urin samples and experiments with frozen bodyparts out of urin. Western man is obsessed with staving off old age and preserving the body beautiful for as long as possible. Cosmetic surgery, vitamin pills, hormones, herbal remedies etc. are methods to stay beautiful longer. However no matter how hard we try the ageing process and loss of beauty is inevitable – we all grow old and morph into another body – our form and shape changes completely as we age and move towards death. Despite this inevitability death isn’t a subject commonly referred to. We tend to avoid talking about it and leave it to other people. For Roland Barthes ‘the images that belong to one’s own history become a “wound”; the others, those that form part of a history of a stranger, or even those of someone who never existed, are taken as symbols of evidence.’
A few experiments, some were more successful than others. It was quite hard to remove the latex from the frozen parts as they were so fragile and would easily break.
