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It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter. —William S. Burroughs
SITUATIONS and New Discretions are proud to present, Flesh Becomes Stone, a two-person exhibition of works by Jerry the Marble Faun and Vincent Tiley, at our shared gallery space in Chelsea.
In 2019, researchers at the Kyoto University of Science discovered a nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus in a Japanese hot spring. The virus was able to harden amoebas into crystal-like cysts, essentially turning them into stone. They designated their discovery, medusavirus.
Bearing the title Medusa, one of Tiley’s chimeric stitched and braided leather sculptures rests, its whip-like tentacles…
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It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter. —William S. Burroughs
SITUATIONS and New Discretions are proud to present, Flesh Becomes Stone, a two-person exhibition of works by Jerry the Marble Faun and Vincent Tiley, at our shared gallery space in Chelsea.
In 2019, researchers at the Kyoto University of Science discovered a nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus in a Japanese hot spring. The virus was able to harden amoebas into crystal-like cysts, essentially turning them into stone. They designated their discovery, medusavirus.
Bearing the title Medusa, one of Tiley’s chimeric stitched and braided leather sculptures rests, its whip-like tentacles…
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