Isaac Monté with Toby Kiers

The Art of Deception

In collaboration with Department of Ecological Science (DES) at VU University Amsterdam

The transformation of inner beauty, from grotesque to perfect.

Humans use deception to achieve perfection in society, art and science. Reacting to this through art, we take discarded pig hearts and transform them into elegant vessels for new life by decellularizing them and re-populating them with various techniques, into new fully functional and aesthetically improved hearts for humans.

We aim to explore how biological interventions and aesthetic manipulation can be used as tools for the ultimate deception: the transformation of inner beauty, from grotesque to perfect.

BLOG
06/10 Strike a Pose 
29/09 Something Old, Something New
08/09 Casting the Vessels
19/08 Do not reanimate
07/08 Science is so slow, let’s speed it up
13/07 Drying
07/07 A bloody job
23/06 Decellularisation

Follow Isaac
24/10 Lecture by Isaac Monté during Dutch Design Week
17/10 – 25/10 Thing/Nothing van Abbemuseum
17/10 – 25/10 Broeinest during Dutch Design Week
12/06 Bessensap