“The Tissue Culture Point of View” is a video projection explores the complexities of recursive scaling from the cellular to the human organism. Visitors are invited to lay down on the floor and look up to the ceiling projection. The video image reflects a large pipette tip that continuously allocates nutrient solution into a petri dish that becomes the frame of the image, and the interface between image and the viewers’ body.

The scale of the image reverses the conventional perspective of looking down when feeding, growing and observing tissue culture cell lines through the microscope. The viewers’ body becomes tissue culture through the scaling of proximity and size.

The irony in this gesture of reverse positioning is implicated by the very fact that the human can never see the tissue culture point of view.  The reliance on vision as a primary form of perception, and the human point of view is not necessary compatible with the microbial world- particularly through the isolation of living microorganisms through in-vitro experiments- that do not replicate the same environmental conditions affecting living systems outside of the laboratory context.

Exhibited at PICA, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art as part of an artist residency in 2008, Australia , FoFA Gallery solo show in 2011, Montreal Canada (top right image) and Pavlov Museum in St.Petersburg 2012, Russia (bottom left image).