How We Touch One Another, Andrew Carnie

Artwork Overview

born 1957
How We Touch One Another, 2020
Where object was made: England, United Kingdom
Material/technique: paper
Dimensions:
Object Length/Width/Depth (Length x Width x Depth): .a 29.8 x 21.1 x 2.6 cm closed
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 11 3/4 x 8 5/16 x 1 1/2 in
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): .b 30.9 x 21.4 x 3.9 cm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 12 3/16 x 8 7/16 x 1 9/16 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund
Accession number: S2020.002.a,b
Not on display

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Images

Label texts

Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body
This accordion-style book depicts a human body cut through with a laser to reveal its intricate circulatory system. Andrew Carnie uses the form of the book to imply that this body has a story to tell. The book’s hard cover protects the softer interior pages, which contain a narrative full of holes and unknowns. He asks: “How do these elements affect each other as they conjoin? What might they suggest about the nature of coming together?” This work arose from Carnie’s transdisciplinary research on organ transplantation, where ideas about connection and separation and the seen and unseen are common motifs.
Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body
This accordion-style book depicts a human body cut through with a laser to reveal its intricate circulatory system. Andrew Carnie uses the form of the book to imply that this body has a story to tell. The book’s hard cover protects the softer interior pages, which contain a narrative full of holes and unknowns. He asks: “How do these elements affect each other as they conjoin? What might they suggest about the nature of coming together?” This work arose from Carnie’s transdisciplinary research on organ transplantation, where ideas about connection and separation and the seen and unseen are common motifs.

Exhibitions

Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator
2021