What are the ramifications of modern achievements in biotechnology? Can sickness and old age be overcome once we manage to decode the genome? Where do we set ethical or moral limits on what is scientifically feasible? With his multi-part picture and sound installation Dance through Morphospace, as well as a series of large-format photographs, Cologne artist Harald Fuchs (*1954) circles the emotionally gripping and many-layered issues raised by current genetic research. He takes familiar scientific images like the double helix or cloned cells and interweaves them with elements from animist tribal cultures and with art historical allusions. The result is a thought-provoking pictorial tapestry, whose sophisticated light effects and rich material textures are reminiscent of a baroque still life.

Editor: ERES-Stiftung
Authors: Ernst Peter Fischer, S. Adler
Artists: Harald Fuchs

Softcover
21 x 25 cm
56 pages
37 color ills.
German
available
ISBN 978-3-86828-113-2
16 Euro
2010