Fotograf Gallery / Prague / with Miroslava Vecerova
Living matter – including flesh – is intelligent and self-organizing, but it so precisely because it is not disconnected from the rest of organic life.
Rosi Braidotti, Post-Anthropocentrism: Life beyond the Species
Isotonic /iso·ton·ic/ (-ton´ik)
1. denoting a solution in which body cells can be bathed without net flow of water across the semipermeable cellmembrane.
2. denoting a solution having the same tonicity as another solution with which it is compared.
3. maintaining uniform tonus.
Dorland’s Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers, 2007
The Salt
The salt in the small bowl looks up at me
with all its little glittering eyes and says:
I am the dry sea.
Your blood tastes of me.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Isotonic /iso·ton·ic/ (-ton´ik) ---solution having the similar concentrations of salt and sugar to the human body
Isotonic Song tells the modern mythology of hybrid beings, the theme of internally conflicting corporealities is present for a time in both archaic polymorphism, and the futuristic perspective of biotechnology.
We are focusing on ancient species and Horseshoe crabs, which are also referred to as ‘living fossils’ – due to the replenishing medical substance they possess – blue blood that flows through their bodies and carries universal antibiotic properties.
The works of Příkaský and Večeřová can thus be read, in some degree, as anthropology, giving voice to individual actors and their perspectives without imposing hierarchy or limiting descriptiveness.
Animal salt liks, rock salt, fabric fringes, silver color, filler, acrylic painting, wall drawing/painting, video projection, glass print