cryostat hssv 6-7

Format: 200 x 150 cm / 79 x 59 in (framed), edition of 6
Hybrid photography, archival pigment print, aludibond, diasec

Immortality is an age-old dream of humankind. Storage of the dead organism in cyrogenic tanks is predicated on the hope of reanimation at some future point of time. This would be realised by the subsequent extraction of the neural system and its implantation in clone bodies or other binary entities. Each of the three tanks in the picture is filled and hosts six bodies stored and conserved at minus 198 degrees Celsius. The picture touches on the themes of storage, conservation, metamorphosis and the mystery of immortality.