Hide 2024

HIDE plays with the way skin both reveals and conceals, setting a stage to explore how the largest, heaviest organ has been utilised through history. The porous barrier is for both humans and animals one of the first lines of protection against disease. Parchment also became charms and amulets worn to ward off plagues and cure illness. Today manuscripts are analysed to reveal not only the content or meaning of the words crossing the skin but the genetic make-up and DNA of the flocks and herds used to create the pages. The material makes the mortal immortal, the animal living on as a container of historical and biological information.