STUFFED WITH FIGS 2015 - Exhibition @ ACWR MARCH // Part of the ME’N’U series.
Nicolasde Cosson, MFA, creates projection-based sculptural works that are designed to support time-based digital constructions. His work focuses on animating skin-like or membrane-like projection surfaces through a technique known as “projection mapping.” This process can give the effect of objects possessing an inner life, highlighting concepts of boundary and skin. These physical surfaces, or metaphorical skins, act as substrates that support the projected light, suffusing the light across a surface.
Using membrane-like or surface-centric materials such as: ivory beeswax, glass, Plexiglass, 3D printed bone-white thermodynamic plastics, LED and digitally projected Light, Nicolas de Cosson’s current work explores themes of transgenic futures in which genetically modified animal-vessels are the norm.
STUFFED WITH FIGS probes at the human desire for biomedical mass manufacturing. An imagined ready made tailored xeno-in-utero grown organ or tissue conjures notions of hybridity, or, a transgenic animal/ human vessel host. Distributed manufacturing points to a future of surplus organs housed in factories and warehouses, positioning the relationship to the body as no longer precious or sacred. In this irrelevance or irreverence, the attitude towards our internal organs shifts, as does this exo-body production.
Living in a world of excess, our body acts as a vessel for consumption. This continuous void is to be filled, or stuffed, with such delicacies as Jecur Ficatum. Jecur, the Latin word for liver, is not traditionally part of the anatomical or medicinal canon, however, is thought of as linked to this gluttonous dish, Liver Stuffed with Figs.
Subject to much abuse, the weakened liver is a manifestation of a gluttonous life, however, there is a contradiction present as the liver is also the necessity for that desirous life to proceed. As its primary purpose of removing toxins, making bile, processing nutrients and building protein, these natural functions poise the liver for profitability. It is from this potential that stocks and warehouses will fill to the brim, to the edge, piled high. To which, upon receipt of required credit can be placed within.
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