#4: We Don't End At the Skin - Andrew Carnie

We invited Andrew Carnie: a British artist whose work explores the science of our bodies and what it means to be human.

🦠 Andrew is inspired by the notion that 38 trillion bacterial cells live inside us, outnumbering our own human cells. So where does You actually end?
His art doesn't depict the scientific specifics. It captures the mood of something much bigger: the invisible connections between our bodies, other living beings, and the world around us.

🫧 We explore how we continuously exchange with everyone around us. How spending time with a friend literally refreshes your microbiome. How a kiss is partly your body sensing a biological fit.

We also ask a bigger question: are our bodies built for this planet only? And what does that mean for how we care for it, and for ourselves?

🌊 Andrew's nspiration: you're invited  to think of yourself as hotelier, caretaker not only of the world outside us, but of your inner ecosystem too. Because the sea lives inside us. And in that sense, we carry everything we've ever been.

🐚 Andrew's souvenir for you: he gives us a Soap Baby: a life-sized baby cast in soap (one of Andrew's works) that people instinctively want to care for, yet it slowly dissolves in your hands when you use it at the sink. A quiet poem about how we begin disappearing from the very moment we're conceived.

Go to https://www.andrewcarnie.uk/ to view Andrew's work

Hosted by: Daphne Frühmann
Editing: Axel Frühmann
Music: Mark Oomen
Instagram: @theartofcoexistence
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