Hanneke Wetzer
Isaac Monté is a design activist and designs objects and installations as a response to the social, ecological or economic problems. At the moment his work called ‘the art of deception’ is been featured in Kazarne, Eindhoven during the exhibition of guest curator Jeroen Junte, called ‘next up’.
Ruud Balk
‘We have taken discarded pig hearts and transformed them into elegant vessels for new life by decellularizing them and re-populating them with various techniques, into aesthetically improved hearts for humans’ (Monte).
The work consists of 21 cylinders, each containing a transformed porcine heart. With this collection, Aterlier Monté, explores how biological intervention and aesthetic manipulation can be used as tools for the ultimate deception: transforming the inner beauty, from extreme to perfect. Isaac thereby asks the question on how muslims and vegetarians respond to receiving a donor heart.
Isaac Monte
The project is about improving and beautify the human body, it is about the deceptiveness of beauty and the scientific developments in the field of tissue culture and organ transplantation. Isaac examines the future scenario in which the scientific improvement of an organ such as the heart does not result from medical necessity, but out of greed and coquetry.
You could see Monte as an explorer in a possible future world. His findings ask fundamental questions. What does it mean that our body, the most familiar, that is composed of material that we can analyze and manipulate as desired? What does it say about our identity? Does it exist independently from our bodies? In other words, what is humanity?
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