"From early on, very early on, I understood that art is not about what you say. It’s about these other things that you don’t say."
"Doug, Joe and Genevieve" from "The Garden of Delights" (1998)
"Doug, Joe and Genevieve" from "The Garden of Delights," 1998
C-print of DNA analyses laminated to Plexiglas, 60 x 74 inches.
Courtesy the artist and Max Protetch, New York.
C-print of DNA analyses laminated to Plexiglas, 60 x 74 inches.
Courtesy the artist and Max Protetch, New York.
"When I made my first DNA portraits, it was not a response to the new technology of genetics. It was not about visualizing science. It was because all of a sudden (we had just had the O. J. Simpson trial in 1994) the DNA fingerprint was a new image. What really fascinated me was that abstract image and the idea that we, the public, incorporated it into our vocabulary and our understanding of image and of abstraction."
- Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
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