Virus Embodiment
Publication in Apocalypse Zine #3 2023
by Sarah Sharafi
Do not touch!
This place is full of viruses
please keep distance
Viruses replicating in cells
Neumünder
or
Deuterostomia
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From my growing viruses series
latex & ink imprint
2020
The Embodiment
Virus with a nipple
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From my growing viruses series
latex & ink imprint
2020
These virus hijacked cells
popped out since February 7, 2020
If all viruses were lined up
they would stretch from one side of the galaxy to the other.
Imagine the line____________________________________________...
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 viruses
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 cells
I
II
III
Virus replicating in cells
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A growing series
I + II = latex, acryl & gips
III Virus replicating in cells quartet: print on paper
2020
The flesh of the world,
the world made flesh
The flesh of the world, the world made flesh
latex, ink, gips and a plastic box
2020
“The body is our general medium for having a world.”
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
Pores & Craters
the skin as a fragile border between self and the world
Slices of cultivated skin
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imprint: latex, ink & acryl
2019
At the center of our world.
(O)
Bumps with a collar or
Knotty depressions
Bump with a collar
Navel I
(O)
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latex & acryl
2020
To be sure
I exist
I touch you
Ravages of time
I out of III
(part of a series)
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latex & ink imprint on a glass jar
to be filled with a black jelly substance
2020
A touch of reality
A slight touch of reality
IMAGINE
there was a beginning no human planned or designed
when humans and rolling stones were much of the same
I
III
V
II
IV
VI
I. Bristly, with Balsam.
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objet trouvé, wax & vaseline
2020
III. No Leftovers I
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part of a series
latex & ink
2019
V. Navel II
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latex & acryl imprint
2020
II. Small round blue cell
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objet trouvé
2020
IV. PMS
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gips, raw hemp yarn, ink
2020
VI. Rolling stone
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objet trouvé
2020