DISSECTION
A journey to my other self
I grow microalgae and my own microorganisms -my microbiota- on my skin. My question was: Why do we have microalgae on us, maybe for millennia? Bacteria are part of our immune system,
but algae (Protochlorella)? I want to have a close encounter with them, and "ask" my microbiota.
BacterHuman Welcome to my skin
BacterHuman focuses on the cutaneous microbiota (all the microorganisms living on and inside the skin). After creating face-to-face encounters between humans and their microbiotas, I wanted to explore the intimate communication occurring on human skin by fixing some patches made with a pH indicator culture media on my skin. The color changes testify conflicts, overlapping multiplication or equilibrium between my skin (and its excretions), and my microbiota, creating images and sounds (from the images) interacting with my performative quest of human identity. Recent studies showed that microalgae are part of our microbiota, and I created Bodies of Water about our microbiotal relationship with water (exhibition and video at Leamington Art Centre (LAC), Ontario, Canada, 2022). I presented BacterHuman in Bacterhuman in son et lumiere (LAC, 2023, and TTT, Malta 2023). I have been invited to participate in the FEMeeting Sisterlabs panels and events in Toronto (March 23-28, 2024), where I performed BacterHuman
