To cure (a work on complexity)
Installation, Abstract informal, Various materials, 2.5x2x2.5cm
On the wall the following writings:
A CD containing the complete human genome put on some hundreds of drug package inserts. Between them, on the floor, a few thousands of bits of “junk” DNA. On the wall, the complete sequence of the human mitochondrial DNA sequence.
The “side effects” don’t allow to the pieces of the puzzle to fit in…
The extraordinary conciseness of DNA is indicative of an irreducible external complexity that can not be eluded.
The dream of “no side effects” is not only a challenge of genomics and proteomics, but an epistemological question.
But the cure is, above all, an existential investigation: lost in the sea of complexity, while we are trying to reconstruct our identity we discover that we can find it only meeting other people.
Complexity joins all people together and it is itself, paradoxically, a cure.
A CD containing the complete human genome put on some hundreds of drug package inserts. Between them, on the floor, a few thousands of bits of “junk” DNA. On the wall, the complete sequence of the human mitochondrial DNA sequence.
The “side effects” don’t allow to the pieces of the puzzle to fit in…
The extraordinary conciseness of DNA is indicative of an irreducible external complexity that can not be eluded.
The dream of “no side effects” is not only a challenge of genomics and proteomics, but an epistemological question.
But the cure is, above all, an existential investigation: lost in the sea of complexity, while we are trying to reconstruct our identity we discover that we can find it only meeting other people.
Complexity joins all people together and it is itself, paradoxically, a cure.
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