A synthesized version of the genetic information of each one of my twenty-three pairs of chromosomes is engraved on a different plexiglass piece. “Amateur Gods” is thus constituted by twenty-three components representing my most intimate self. These sculptures have a reminiscence of the interlocking games we played when kids, and make an allegory with the newest discoveries regarding genetic engineering, specifically with the “CRISPR” tool.
This version of Amateur Gods is an
edition developed for the Bass Museum, of Miami Beach. It comes in a
“Performance Box”. In this case, the user is invited to play Amateur Gods
himself, arranging and rearranging the
elements containing the artist´s most intimate information according to his own
context-specific interest. The piece, manipulated by the spectator, unfolds and
shifts position, continually proposing new layouts and, therefore, a new total
form. I propose an open morphology subject to the spectator’s desire, who plays
the part of the scientist and Amateur God, constructing new versatile, mutant,
and dynamic imaginaries of the body and the self.
