Arte e Biologia com Marta de Menezes

Nature?, 1999 – 2000. 

"In “Nature?” I have created live butterflies where their wing patterns were modified for artistic purposes. Such changes were achieved by interfering with the normal development [of the normal cells] of the wing (...)."

 "The new patterns are something that never existed before in nature, and that rapidly disappear from nature not to be seen again. These artworks literally live and die." - texto retirado de Nature?

Sobre a Bio-art:

"Biotechnology was born to explore these new tools for the benefit of humankind. However, the remarkable tools of modern biology are seen with hope and fear, simultaneously."

"Furthermore, modern biology and biotechnology offer the opportunity to create art using biology as new media. I have been trying not only to portrait the recent advances of biological sciences, but to incorporate biological material as new art media: DNA, proteins and cells offer an opportunity to explore novel ways of representation and communication."

"Consequently, although lacking formal scientific training, my recent artistic activity has been conducted in research laboratories." - texto retirado de Art and Biology

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Marta de Menezes (Lisbon, Portugal, 1975)  marta(at-symbol)martademenezes.com
Degreed in Fine Arts by the University in Lisbon, and a MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture by the University of Oxford.
Currently Artist-in-Residence at the MRC – Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London.

biografia completa: http://www.martademenezes.com/?page_id=57