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Are You a Body or Do You Have a Body?

ARE YOU A BODY OR DO YOU HAVE A BODY?!

2005

Surgical tape, electrical tape and band-aids adhered to the wall

120 x 96 inches / 305 x 244 cm


2010

Surgical tape on paper

36 x 52 inches / 91.5 x 132 cm

ARE YOU A BODY OR DO YOU HAVE A BODY?! is an image of a weight-lifting machine made with delicately cut surgical tape. Its first iteration was as a life-size installation, and its second iteration is a work on paper. The choice between “being” or “having” a body alludes to our reflexive capacity to be both object and subject and is intended to provoke a questioning of perceived divisions of mind and body in the viewer.
ARE YOU A BODY OR DO YOU HAVE A BODY?! (cropped)
ARE YOU A BODY OR DO YOU HAVE A BODY?! 2005 Surgical tape, electrical tape and band-aids adhered to the wall 305 x 244 cm
ARE YOU A BODY OR DO YOU HAVE A BODY?! (pm Gallery installation view)
ARE YOU A BODY OR DO YOU HAVE A BODY?! 2005 Surgical tape, electrical tape and band-aids adhered to a wall 305 x 244 cm
Are you a body or do you have a body?!
Are you a body or do you have a body?! 2010 Surgical tape on paper 91.5 x 132 cm
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