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

-

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

Maaijke Middelbeek, Virus, Cells, Tactile Art

 

 

 

I

Maaijke Middelbeek, Virus, Cells, Tactile Art

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 

 

 

 

cultivated meat, virus, cell, growing, imprint

 

 

 

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 

 

 

 cultivated meat, imprint, pores & craters

 

Pores & Craters

the skin as a fragile border between self and the world 

 

Slices of cultivated skin

-

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)

-

latex & acryl

2020

 

 

 

 

To be sure

I exist

I touch you

 

Maaijke Middelbeek, Touch sense, Tactile art

 

 

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 sam

 

  

I

III

V

II

IV

VI


I. Bristly, with Balsam. 

-  

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