A NEW exhibition at the John Rylands library showcases the work of Manchester School of Art lecturer Daksha Patel.
Noisy Bodies, which opened this month, combines art with medical imaging.Sight, says the artist is associated with knowledge while light is often used as a metaphor for truth.
Patel is interested in a particular kind of looking to know, that of a research scientist investigating the human body
The exhibition features twenty new drawings and prints, which explore the scientific concept of “noise,” with themes such as exploring the ideas about body and space, the digital nature of medical visualization sand microscopic imagery of the body such as blood cells and lung tissue.
Daksha’s art utilises stylistic elements of medical imaging to explore noise within the human body.
She said: “Noise in a scientific context is understood as unintentional, unverifiable or unknown signals generated by the human body or by technologies during the process of data transmission.”
“My practice is concerned with digital systems that are used to scan and map the human body.I’m intrigued by the images produced by medical visualization technologies and question how these images change our perceptions and experiences of the body.
Daksha will give a talk on the exhibition on October 29 from 6pm to 7.30pm as part of Manchester Science Festival.
The exhibition runs until December 20, and can be found in the Historic Reading room of the John Rylands Library.
