“Art of skins cells, infection and DNA exhibits in Sydney.” The University of Western Australia. UWA, 6 June 2013. Web. 12 Sept. 2014.
Debuting in Sydney, Australia, the art exhibition semipermeable (+) views the membrane as a source of artistic inspiration. Protocells, infection and DNA all factor into this corporeal envisioning. In Donna Franklin’s “Fibre Reactive” (pictured above), orange bracket fungi is used among other materials to form a dress of microbiology. Another piece, Verena Friedrich’s “CELLULAR PERFORMANCE” makes words used in cosmetic pharmaceutical advertising out of human and animal skin cells. The advertised promises are literally formed out of the subject matter it refers to. As a whole, the exhibition raises interesting questions about the interconnections between inner bodily aspects and the seemingly unrelated outside world.
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