Interbody

Interbody is a narrative about the technological transformations of the body, the intermediate body in transition between bodies. Interbody approaches the blurred line between humanism and dehumanism departing from the socio-documentary material that flooded the media after the disclosure of Mastronarino's medical crimes. Interbody refers to a specific "spinal" bone graft, an intermediate body that has fused to the body of the recipient. In the context of the installation Interbody takes on other connotations revealing a multi-layered physical reality from biomedical products to falsified medical records and blood samples, spinal injury to opioid addiction and metastasised bone cancer.

In the light of transplantation technology the last decades the body appears as to be reduced to raw material. The biomedical revolution in the treatment of incurable diseases and reconstruction of the body with transplants has greatly increased the demand for human tissues and bone, while there is a severe shortage of donors. Nevertheless, bone, tissue and cell therapy is a fast-growing international market with an intensive exchange of products mostly of human origin.

Donorship is perhaps the greatest altruistic act possible pushing the boundaries of our bodies to after our death with the potential of restoring the lifequality of multiple humans. Most of us are unaware of the afterlife that our of human remains can take on after donation, as the demand increases with the technological progress and its ever increasing implementations also for research and training. Once processed the bone and tissue become an biomedical industrial product sold like any other raw material on the markedplace. Though strictly regulated by international laws with screening procedures and digital tracking systems the high financial gain seems to encourage malpractices.