»Mirrors of the Unseen (Tableaus)« 
Light Box
Light Box
© Birgit und Peter Kainz; Mirrors of the Unseen (Tableaus), 2010/11
Printing on aluminium
100 x 200 cm
UV-Print; Painted aluminum, e.g. T. colored epoxy resin Note: PDF with extended caption in Next Cloud folder
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Ruth Schnell >
»Mirrors of the Unseen (Tableaus)«, 2010 - 2011
https://ruthschnell.org/en/works/mirrors-of-the-unseen-tableaus/
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UV print; coated aluminum, colored epoxy resinMethod
Title and imaging method:Brain Cells (Computer simulation)
Colonies of the Cyanobacterium Gloeotrichia (light microscopy/Rheinberg illumination )
Epidermis (conventional light microscopy)
Fibroblasts (fluorescent microscopy)
Human Bone (electron microscopy)
Red Blood Cells #2 (conventional light microscopy)
Stem Cells (multiphoton microscopy)
Unilamellare Liposomen (transmission electron cryomicroscopy [CryoTEM])
Descriptions & Essays
Ruth Schnell 24-09-2021
Printing on aluminium
100 x 200cm
UV print; coated aluminum, colored epoxy resin
Images are hypotheses about the visible. Only the viewers ability to connect what they see with their own knowledge and sentience makes a picture readable. The aluminum panels of the 'Mirrors of the Unseen' series seem to present a gaze into the body. The motifs are applied onto the plates through UV printing technique. They are informed by technical images displaying "structures of life“, namely by microscopic images used in the medical field, which again are based on different imaging methods. Scaling, image processing, and rearrangement open up new aesthetic fields of interpretation. The tableaus measurements with 2 x 1 meter reminds the size of a mirror, encompassing the viewer's body and pointing back to the reality of the visible.
Title and imaging method:
Brain Cells (Computer simulation)
Colonies of the Cyanobacterium Gloeotrichia (light microscopy/Rheinberg illumination )
Epidermis (conventional light microscopy)
Fibroblasts (fluorescent microscopy)
Human Bone (electron microscopy)
Red Blood Cells #2 (conventional light microscopy)
Stem Cells (multiphoton microscopy)
Unilamellare Liposomen (transmission electron cryomicroscopy [CryoTEM])
Ruth Schnell: Mirrors of the Unseen (Tableaus), 24-09-2021, in: Archive of Digital Art Printing on aluminium
100 x 200cm
UV print; coated aluminum, colored epoxy resin
Images are hypotheses about the visible. Only the viewers ability to connect what they see with their own knowledge and sentience makes a picture readable. The aluminum panels of the 'Mirrors of the Unseen' series seem to present a gaze into the body. The motifs are applied onto the plates through UV printing technique. They are informed by technical images displaying "structures of life“, namely by microscopic images used in the medical field, which again are based on different imaging methods. Scaling, image processing, and rearrangement open up new aesthetic fields of interpretation. The tableaus measurements with 2 x 1 meter reminds the size of a mirror, encompassing the viewer's body and pointing back to the reality of the visible.
Title and imaging method:
Brain Cells (Computer simulation)
Colonies of the Cyanobacterium Gloeotrichia (light microscopy/Rheinberg illumination )
Epidermis (conventional light microscopy)
Fibroblasts (fluorescent microscopy)
Human Bone (electron microscopy)
Red Blood Cells #2 (conventional light microscopy)
Stem Cells (multiphoton microscopy)
Unilamellare Liposomen (transmission electron cryomicroscopy [CryoTEM])
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