MARILÈNE OLIVER (B. 1977)

Working at the intersection between new digital technologies, traditional print and sculpture, Marilène Oliver has exhibited widely in the UK and Europe in both private and public collections and galleries including The Courtauld, Victoria and Albert Museum, Royal Academy, Kunsthalle Ahlen, Casino Luxembourg, and The Wellcome Trust. Her finished sculptures bridge the virtual and the real worlds; living in both and neither simultaneously. She works with the body translated into data form in order to repair the fragmentation and dislocation of the body brought about by medical imaging and electronic communication by using the digitised body to make sculptures. Oliver uses various scanning technologies, such as MRI, CT, and PET to reclaim the body from the contemporary medical and digital gaze in order to poetically subvert it and offer future relics of the increasingly digitised self.

The present work has been made using the cryo-sections of Joseph Paul Jernigan, AKA the Visible Human. The cryo-section images were downloaded from the Internet and translated in order to be silkscreen printed onto sheets of clear acrylic. The printed sheets are stacked to create the illusion of a physical presence.