(Image of Alex Flett’s
spine created through MRI scan)
The Bodyworks Suite exhibition
by Alex Flett is currently running in the Park Gallery of the KZNSA. It consists
of 20 unique limited edition prints created through MRI scans of Alex Flett’s
spine, bounced through sophisticated coloured photo copiers.
Flett was the European Cultural Advisor for the AIDS 2000
Conference, for which the works were originally created. They were exhibited in
the BAT Centre Democratic Gallery as part of the Amasiko Programme. He describes
the prints as 'artisience' - a word coined to describe those things which cross
boundaries between art and science, and to show that often art and science are
working from the same philosophical root.
Bodyworks speaks
of the human need to defeat the virus with what one might call the psychology
of art at work. It aims to give viewers, especially children, a sense of
self-worth as well as of their own humanity, and a sense of owning, taking
charge of and protecting one's own body.
The Bodyworks
project was developed for the XIII International AIDS Conference in Durban in
2000, and now, in 2016, the exhibition of prints continues to inform on the
importance of art and culture in the battle against HIV and AIDS. The
exhibition aims to promote and enhance scientific and community collaborations
in the form of art and culture working hand in hand with science.
The exhibition further aims to promote activism and
community mobilisation especially around young people and children, as it
educates through art, raising awareness of every individual's right to health
and access to HIV prevention and treatment programmes, and protection against
stigma and discrimination.
The Bodyworks Suite
Exhibition runs until August 7 at the KZNSA Gallery, 166 Bulwer Road in
Durban. For more information contact 031 277 1705 or visit www.kznsagallery.co.za
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