All images by Kıymet Daştan and Nadim Choufi
Golden Hour Bodies
PLA 3D printed objects, Spirulina cyanobacteria, Potassium Iodide, Silver anti-radiation fabric, PVC water bladder bag, digital print on vinyl, aluminum, resin, anti-radiation sticker, water, sunset red filter
2019
Tiny dots, little specs in outer space and in your water radiate through you yet pass unnoticed. After all, even through your hardest days, we are all made of stardust — but what if stardust is not rendered for you?
Celestial and organic bodies are made visible through technologies. Radiating galaxies reaching us in black and white datasets yet are colored and composed by the Hubble team to look right based on sublime 19th century American landscapes painting. Meanwhile, under earth’s atmosphere, radiation is tested on the Reference Man, a computational human phantom of an adult Caucasian European and North American male, materializing in environmental limits and market products worldwide.
Technologies of exploration and discovery connected as the poster child for conquest occurring at the level of the pixel and vertex. Skins and stars transmuting to a sublime topology. Both become colonial frontiers, where the Hubble images render space imagination as the site of settlements while the environmental radiation limits tested on the Reference Man place all races, ages, and genders at risk except the adult Caucasian European and North American male.
The 3D printed bodies, Digital Stretch Marks, are the result of children meshes trying to encompass the Reference Man organs in 3D software. The aluminum chairs host 3D printed maps that translate color codes of Hubble images and organs into curved topologies. While above them are lakes of anti-radiation superfoods suspended in anti-radiation fabric found in the market. The installation traces the levels of violence and mechanisms of protection that result from technologies developed in the name of scientific progress.