Born in Sydney, Australia and currently residing in New York, interdisciplinary artist, Justine Cooper's artwork investigates the intersections between culture, science and medicine. She moves between many forms of media - photography, animation, video, installation, as well as medical imaging technologies such as MRI, DNA sequencing, Ultrasound and SEM (scanning electron microscopy). Her work has been internationally recognized and exhibited and screened at venues including The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Ars Electronica, Linz, The NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo; The Singapore Museum of Art; The Netherlands Institute for Media Art, The George Pompidou Centre, Paris; Kwang Ju Biennale, Korea, and the International Center of Photography, New York. Cooper's artwork is held in public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Powerhouse Museum (Sydney), The Queensland Art Gallery and the Australian Center for the Moving Image.
Daneyal Mahmood Gallery is pleased to present TERMINAL a two-part installation by Justine Cooper. Included is RAPT I and II, marking the 10 year anniversary of these seminal works.
Cooper's work expresses multiple ideas of desire, drawing from the fields of medicine and science, which outwardly may seem far from desire. Yet there is a desire by natural science to rationalize our sublime world, to understand where we came from, and perhaps where we are heading. There is a desire by medicine to push the physical and chemical boundaries of our bodies into places that may make us healthier or happier. Through her art, Cooper manifests her curiosity as to how these areas intersect with us as a society and as individuals
The title of the current show refers to her new series of large format photographs depicting medical...