Artist Biography
Patricia Piccinini, born in Sierra Leone in 1965, is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading contemporary artists. Since graduating from the Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne, in the early 1990s, her works have explored the body's intimate relationship to its environment, reflecting on issues of genetic engineering and medical science to consumption, suburban living and car culture. Working across digital photography, sculpture and installation, Piccinini fashions compellingly ambiguous presentations of the body that play upon scenarios of bio-technological intervention. She has exhibited widely in Australia, staging solos shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and has featured in numerous international exhibitions in Tokyo, Berlin, Cardiff and Liverpool. In 2003 she represented Australia at the Venice Biennale. Piccinini lives and works in Melbourne.
http://www.patriciapiccinini.net
Works
When my baby (When my baby) 2005
Artist Statement
This work is part of a series of works that include The breathing room, Plasmid region and In bocca al lupo. They all share a similar aesthetic and represent my interest in presenting a personal vision of the body in an ambiguous fashion. The viewer is seeing a new way of being, one where the whole is composed of multiple, co-dependent entities.
Animation: Dennis Daniel
Audio composition and production: Darrin Verhagen
