Is the human body the same as the social body?
Is the human body the same as the social body? 2002, 2002
Installation. Wood and cardboard model. Three color photographs mounted and laminated in aluminum. One black and white photograph mounted and laminated in aluminum.
Installation view at CA2M, Móstoles
Photo Oak Taylor Smith
Is the human body the same as the social body?
Do we share the same needs and ailments? Do we suffer from the same concerns?
What is it that keeps us awake? What makes us fearful? What oppresses us?
Will our next transplant or the next pill relieve us and bring us out of an anemic state? Will they restore our hope?
Are we talking about the body and are we talking about the extension of our mind, or a mere factual prolongation? Or are we talking about a larger structure that understands and defines us?
Who thinks and decides for us?
Is our function only a corporeal one, a physical condition that is not very light and emphatic?
What do they expect from us?
What do we expect from them?
To be healed, saved or simply mended?
What flows through us and where do we flow to?
Carlos Garaicoa
