Anetta Mona Chişa, Martin Piaček
Soma
human bones, silicone breast implants, gypsum with urine, gabion
2019
Soma is made with "ex-body" materials like human bones, used breast implants, urine (in plaster). The selected individual elements are connected through the human body and at the same time they are temporal transgression (old archaeological remnants of humans, modern artificial implants, fresh urine). Here they are combined with a gabion mesh into a hybrid body. This second hand body is referring to a prosthetic body, a cyborg like E. A. Poe’s John A. B. C. Smith from “The Man That Was Used Up”. On the other hand it can be seen as a skeleton of a material avatar, the mineral matter and the metal structure of automated companions of the present or a bionic creature of the future.