CEREBRAL MRI WITH GALODINO

Cerebral MRI with Galodino.
Drawing on Paper

Wall Mounting. 370 pieces

Installation on wall, vinyl adhesive.

Fisrt series 2008 
Second series 2009

MRI scale drawing of a diagnostic test brain coronal section is formed with high-contrast pictures on small cross-sections of the brain, these drawings show a pathological obsession with the body, an obvious fear of contagion and its expansion into the same body.

Galodino cerebral MRI is a diagnostic test done when the patient Pía for possible origins of mental illness. The installation of 350 drawings up 5cm x 5cm, of alleged cross sections of the brain and modified according to patient's own speculations. The resulting image is a sagittal image of the brain and is accompanied by a quote from the patient obtained in the psychiatric day session of June 7^th of  2007.

"I'm more quiet, I can draw. (Silence). The TAC was beautiful, small medical wanted to be, perhaps a surgeon, open and view the body inside, (Silence). I made some drawings of the TAC, become other things, (Silence). I would like to be something else, a neuron and die in alcohol. (Silence). I have 250 constellations of the brain as intergalactic travel to my mind, (Silence). I can  count the hours while i´m drawing, but it's better to feel the pain when I pluck the hair and later observe  their growth, (Silence).  Everything grows back again…¨