Introduction: Marta De Menezes

Authors

  • Isabel Hoving University of Leiden, Netherlands
  • Marta De Menezes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2011.2.1.398

Keywords:

bio art, art, science

Abstract

Introduction to Marta de Menezes' work

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Author Biography

Marta De Menezes

Marta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist (b. Lisbon, 1975) with a degree in Fine Arts by the University in Lisbon, a MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture by the University of Oxford, and a PhD candidate at the University of Leiden.

She has been exploring the intersection between Art and Biology, working in research laboratories demonstrating that new biological technologies can be used as new art medium.

In 1999 de Menezes created her first biological artwork (Nature?) by modifying the wing patterns of live butterflies. Since then, she has used diverse biological techniques including functional MRI of the brain to create portraits where the mind can be visualised (Functional Portraits, 2002); fluorescent DNA probes to create micro-sculptures in human cell nuclei (nucleArt, 2002); sculptures made of proteins (Proteic Portrait, 2002-2007), DNA (Innercloud, 2003; The Family, 2004) or incorporating live neurons (Tree of Knowledge, 2005) or bacteria (Decon, 2007). Her work has been presented internationally in exhibitions, articles and lectures.

She is currently the artistic director of Ectopia an experimental art laboratory within a biological research institute – the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência – in Lisbon, and Director of Cultivamos Cultura in the South of Portugal.

 

www.martademenezes.com

See also Marta de Menezes’ blog:www.martademenezes.blogspot.com

and the following blogs: www.cultivamoscultura.blogspot.comand www.ectopia-lab.blogspot.com

 

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Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2011): Literary Landscapes and the National Imaginary

Section

Visual Art

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