A group of artists, doctors and scientists worked on the development of a textile-based artwork that takes the form of a Regency-style dress stained with bacterial pigments and patterned by antibiotics.
The artwork is a dress that is colored by antibiotics. The color and the pattern aren’t designed by human or programs, they are designed by the nature. I like this artwork the most among the ALCHEMY exhibition. The aesthetic feeling of the dress give a natural feeling to us. It is an extraordinary dress. The antibiotics have been killed already, so it is totally harmless to human. I like the natural feeling of the dress, which makes the dress more gorgeous. As this dress is not ordinary being dyed by colored substances but antibiotics and bacteria. Anna Dumitriu describe that it is a combination between science and art. Anna’s work sort of brings her artwork to the boundary between science and art. As the antibiotics that were used in her work, were built in laboratory that requires high technology. Compare to nowadays, the public usually separate art from science. In Hong Kong’s secondary school (in the old education system), it divides our focus of study into three areas, art, business and science. We can see this case also in university, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science. Art and science are also good examples found in many debating topic. They all indicate that in normal situation, people conceive art and science as two very different subjects. However, in Anna’s work, she tends to merge these two different subjects together.
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