The Art of Our
Bodies
The inner workings of the human body are discovered in The New Cruelty’s
work, where the Brooklyn based production company took photographs of
the famous BODIES: The Exhibition.
These photographs both fascinate and repulse, but most importantly, like the
exhibit, they educate viewers, allowing us to get a glimpse of how our
bodies function. After the initial shock of seeing our insides so exposed,
viewers begin to discover the great detail in our veins and the spectrum of
colour found just in and around the heart. Our bodies present themselves as
works of art, in this case, exhibited and then photographed.
The aim of BODIES: The Exhibition is to allow people to see inside the
body in a fascinating way, with bodies and organs preserved using “a
revolutionary process called polymer preservation, in which human tissue is
permanently preserved using liquid silicone rubber.” Every aspect of the
body is covered, allowing curious minds to see up close that which most of
us never get to see.
The exhibit shows just how similar we are to nature. Our whole
cardiovascular system looks incredibly similar to the veins seen on leaves,
and our pulmonary veins and arteries look more like the coral reefs you see
while diving than human organs.
Through Science and Art we are learning more and more about our bodies.
Who knows what this can lead to in the medical world?