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By Means of 7000 Litres of Blood Pumped by the Human Hear in 24 Hours, This Sculpture Represents the Quantity of Blood Pumped in 1 Hour and
One of her exhibits here, By Means of 7000 Litres of Blood Pumped by the Human Hear in 24 Hours, This Sculpture Represents the Quantity of Blood Pumped in 1 Hour and 28 Minutes consists of many layers of a wide range of glass containers. Approximately 800 receptacles contain blood of different hues: bright/dark or transparent/opaque. In general, the blood in the course of clotting in an sealed container curdles one’s blood, but in this work it transforms itself into an object of visually attractive appearance as it is thoroughly subject to inanimation. The glass tower which is about 350 centimeters in height presents itself as a monument, and yet the lack of solidity in its construction induces certain anxiety in the minds of the viewers. Another work displayed here is Untitled which is in the form of a house. Entering the gallery, the viewers are greeted by a house-like structure whose door is not seen. As they go round it, there appears a small door through which a dark and tiny room is seen. On the pedestal at the center of the room is placed a skull/skulls?, and light is coming out of the small openings punctured on its crown. The streams of light out of the holes form a pattern of Ursa Minor on the ceiling of the dark room. The skull symbolic of ‘vanitas’corresponds in general to the meaninglessness of the human life, but here it is bestowed with eternity by being reborn as a constellation.
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