FLY ROOM (Library of Congress), 2011
treacle and flies (Drosophila melanogaster) on paper, 120 x 120 cm
The portraits of FLY ROOM are painted with a transparent sugar solution that attracts fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster). The insects suck on the brushstrokes, get stuck, and turn into pixels for various themes such as school, prison, mausoleum, garden of love or paradise garden. The architectural floor plans mark stations where people are stuck for a certain period of their lives, where they change and “mutate”. Drosophila melanogaster, serving as an important model organism for the natural sciences, becomes a allegorical being of biopolitics in these portraits.
treacle and flies (Drosophila melanogaster) on paper, 120 x 120 cm
The portraits of FLY ROOM are painted with a transparent sugar solution that attracts fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster). The insects suck on the brushstrokes, get stuck, and turn into pixels for various themes such as school, prison, mausoleum, garden of love or paradise garden. The architectural floor plans mark stations where people are stuck for a certain period of their lives, where they change and “mutate”. Drosophila melanogaster, serving as an important model organism for the natural sciences, becomes a allegorical being of biopolitics in these portraits.