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Return to search results Beneath the SurfaceNancy Edell Spiracle 1 1998 The Nova Scotian artists Nancy Edell, Kim Morgan and Susan Wood share an interest in corporeal experience. In these works from the MSVU Collection, the artists present metaphors for the invisible, sometimes pathological processes at work within the body. The exhibition includes a life-sized Dress (1991) drawing by Wood, in which the internal organs and skeleton are delicately rendered through the screen of an ethnic wedding dress. Edell’s hooked mats (1998-2001) reveal fanciful organisms occurring beneath the surfaces of body, earth and ocean, on the borderline that distinguishes what is biologically human from what is not. In Kim Morgan’s Corpulence (2009), chandelier-like clusters of test-tubes and glass slides with microscopic scans of human fat evoke the penetrating power of medical imaging technology as it is brought to bear on an obese Read an excerpt from the catalogue Exhibition Images Click on an image to enlarge it. |