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Exhibitions
Body Worlds, The Atlantis Gallery, London
Chris Bloor found Body Worlds, an unusual show of dead bodies in London, to be essential viewing.
“What indeed, does man know of himself! Can he even once perceive himself completely, laid out as if in an illuminated glass case? Does not nature keep much the most from him, even about his body, to spellbind and confine him in a proud, deceptive consciousness, far from the coils of the intestines, the quick current of the bloodstream, and the involved tremors of the fibres?” Nietzsche, ‘On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense’
Body Worlds: the anatomical exhibition of real human bodies is an exhibit at the Atlantis Gallery in London’s East End to be held until the end of September 2002. It has caused controversy because all the displays in the exhibition are of the remains of real human beings, who have donated their bodies specifically for this purpose.
The exhibition has been made possible by a unique combination of technological advance and the changing attitudes of the law. The technology is a process termed plastination by its developer Professor Günther von Hagens. The body is preserved via plastic injection under conditions of vacuum.
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