Allotropy of Mine
Carbon makes up 18% of our body mass. Artist Daniela Brill Estrada drew on this fact to compose her self-reflective work. Each glass bottle illustrated the amount of carbon contained in the different tissues, organs, and molecules of her own body.
Is there a difference between the carbon atoms in the glass bottles and the ones inside our body? How do we understand our body through carbon?
Medium: Installation, Charcoal powder, Glass bottles
Year: 2018
Team
Daniela Brill Estrada
Artist
Daniela Brill Estrada is an artist born in Bogotá, who currently lives and works in Vienna. Her creative processes are informed by her interest in sciences of complexity, aesthetics, and non-hierarchical structures of knowledge, and based on the idea of in-disciplinarity, constructed collaboratively with the Suratómica Network, which she co-created and currently co-organises. Brill works in collaboration with scientific institutions and networks, such as the ORIGIN network of high-energy physics at CERN, and with artistic institutions, such as the ArtSci Center + Lab UCLA. Currently, she is a PhD researcher for the project DIGI-Sense at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria.
