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J-131 | No.9
In the summer of 2021, I had J-131, a radioactive iodine isotope with a half-life of eight days in my body. For the duration of its absorption by the body, or more precisely, the targeted destruction of parts of it and the excretion of the material by it, I was in radiation quarantine. Such, I had enough time to capture this for me probably unique moment of being in direct contact with radioactivity. Visualising this invisible phenomenon fascinated me. The result is a limited series of Polaroids that visualise the half-life and radiation of the material in the intensity of the respective results. I did not take photographs or paint with light (deriving from the greek wtó, Ypáeiv (photós graphein), photography initially means “light” and “to paint/write/draw” and refers to both the process and the result). I only shot with body fluids.
(this is a photograph with my mobile during an exhibition with a reflection of myself in the framed work)
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2021
Aug.
| Hamburg (DE)
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shot with radioactivity
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