Patricia Piccini is an artist who explores the concept of what is natural in the digital age. She focuses on the human form and its potential for manipulation and enhancement through bio technical intervention. Her work includes a lot of science as she incorporates activities such as growing human tissue and organs from stem cells. Her work is a scientific process and ethic is often questioned.
According to the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia,
“Piccinini has an ambivalent attitude towards technology and she uses her artistic practice as a forum for discussion about how technology impacts upon life. She is keenly interested in how contemporary ideas of nature, the natural and the artificial are changing our society. Specific works have addressed concerns about biotechnology, such as gene therapy and ongoing research to map the human genome… she is also fascinated by the mechanisms of consumer culture.”
Below is one of her most famous pieces she gives the sculpture of what seems to be an animal feeding its babies human qualities.
Her work mixes humans and animals, the idea of post human and emergence of theory of evolution can be explored. Piccinini’s art can be considered to be bio art.
Another interesting artist is Orlan who is the only artist to use plastic surgery as her medium of choice. Since 1990, she has undergone a series of planned performances during which her face is surgically morphed through the use of plastic surgery. Her intention is not to become beautiful but rather to suggest that beauty is unattainable and the process horrifying.
Cosmetic surgery on its own is a sense of cultural identity and the way society and culture impacts on individuals and their choice of appearance. It has been brought into art and reality.
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