By Lizzie Cardozo

Neutrophils

Name: Neutrophils
Brand: Lizzie Cardozo
SKU: HC1464
Price: 300.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Video work with VHS tv
Digital

£300.00

About the Artwork

Time based video of blood cells obtained from nutritionist microscope. Neutrophils are a type of white blood cell that helps the body fight infection. The artist’s blood is being used for this work as a way to understand the workings of the immune system, and how it looks when fighting infection. By abstracting the footage, the work focuses on these unseen internal processes of the body. Reflecting on vulnerability, identity, and bodily autonomy. A semi-autobiographical work bringing the viewer even closer to the artist but at a distance. Looking at spaces within the body and bringing them to the public space.
This clip was filmed at a nutritionist’s office which the artist used to frequent as a young child with her mother. With the intention to remedy symptoms of fatigue through holistic healing and naturopathic remedies. As an adult looking back at these experiences through the lens of consent, illness and psychoanalysis, Cardozo extrapolates these micro sequences and converts them into a macro installation for the viewer to see. Conjuring feelings of nostalgia, uncanniness and curiosity.

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Medium: Video work with VHS tv

Year: 2017

Size: Digital

Ready to Hang:

Installed by a plug with the VHS or it can be projected using a projector.

Lizzie Cardozo

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Lizzie Cardozo (b. 1995) is a multidisciplinary artist based in North London. Her practice works with sculpture, printmaking, and installation to explore themes of familial structures, the body, and ephemera. She graduated from Chelsea College of Arts in 2021 and has since participated in several artist residencies across Europe. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including venues from Taipei, Taiwan to the Saatchi Gallery in London.
Some of the central themes in her practice are the body, identity, place, and memory. Lizzie is interested in how objects hold memory and treats them as a visual diary for the human experience. From recording sounds of her niece’s heartbeat within her sister’s womb, filming samples of her blood under a microscope, to making cyanotypes of her own hair. There is an exploration of macro and micro motifs as well as bringing the private space into the public sphere through installation. Lizzie's practice uses the body as a site of inquiry. From this exploration she uses domestic paraphernalia which is charged with information that she then abstracts through material play, such as casting and installation. She uses "the everyday" to employ notions of time, place, temporality and inhabiting space. Her works imply a presence and absence of the body through material poetics, expressing notions of ephemeral and liminal gestures. Through processes such as casting negative impressions in glass, plaster or latex she attempts to make impermanent actions permanent. Lizzie is inspired by artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Ana Mendieta that look at similar themes such as home, family, mortality, femininity and masculinity.

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