Someone I Know. RSU Museum, Rm2, Riga, Latvia
- andrewcarnie
- Oct 5
- 3 min read
RSU Anatomijas Muzejs
Kronvalda bulvāris 9, Centra rajons,
Rīga, LV-1010
The exhibition will be on view until December 27 of this year.
Carnie has been working at the intersection of art and science for several years, inspiring the RSU Anatomy Museum to become a space where anatomy meets artistic experience. In his latest contribution, he presents Someone I Know, a series of watercolours in which the contours of the head become a platform for visualising processes in the body and psyche. To medical professionals, the works may resemble contemporary radiological images, yet the artist invites viewers to look deeper – into what remains inaccessible to current technologies.
'This series began as a visual response to problems with my right eye, which ultimately led to retinal detachment and surgery. The works were an emotional reaction: the possibility of losing my sight, for someone whose life is so closely tied to visual perception, was a profound shock. The shape of the head served as a space – almost like a stage – where I could explore myself through scientific ideas, creating a poetic experience of presence and living existence. They also reflect insights I have gained during long-term collaborations with scientists working on magnetic resonance, computed tomography, the microbiome, neuroscience, and human anatomy,' explains the artist.
Carnie is an internationally acclaimed figure in British contemporary art, known for blending art and science. He works across painting, sculpture, installations, and large-scale video projections, exploring themes such as metabolism, neurological conditions, heart transplants, and human perception. His works have been exhibited at prestigious venues including the London Science Museum, the Rotterdam Natural History Museum, the Dresden Hygiene Museum, the Pera Museum in Istanbul, the Moravian Gallery in Brno, and numerous other institutions across Europe, the USA, and Asia.
He studied at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the Royal College of Art, London, was a Picker Fellow at Kingston University, taught for many years at Winchester School of Art, and has also served as a visiting professor at the Latvian Academy of Art.
Andrew Carnie is an artist and academic at Winchester School of Art, Southampton University. His practice often involves a meaningful interaction with scientists. He is part of the Critical Practices Research team where his interests lie in exploring the self, through notions of hybridity, in organ transplantation and immunology. Other themes and ideas are often based on neurology, the brain, and how we get a sense of ourselves through scientific ideas, and images The work is often time-based in nature, involving slide dissolve systems or video projection onto complex screens. In darkened spaces layered images appear and disappear on suspended voiles, the developing display absorbing the viewer into an expanded sense of space and time through slowly unfolding narratives that evolve around them. His work has been exhibited at the Science Museum, London, Natural History Museum, Rotterdam, Design Museum, Zurich, Exit Art, in New York, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Great North Museum, Newcastle, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Dresden Hygiene Museum, Morevska Gallery, Brno, and the Daejeon Museum of Art, South Korea amongst many others, most recently the Hatton Gallery and Vane, Newcastle.
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Read about the work at Catalogue.
See more work at the website: http://www.tram.ndo.co.uk/artworks.htm
At Axis web: http://www.axisweb.org/p/andrewcarnie
Current exhibitions and projects: http://andrewcarnieexhibtionsandstuff.blogspot.com/
Science and art blog: http://scienceandart--andrew-carnie.blogspot.com/
Optogenetics project: http://globaleyeartsoptogenetics.blogspot.co.uk/?view=magazine Heart project: http://www.andrewcarnie.org.uk/heart/index.html http://distributedbodies.blogspot.co.uk/?view=magazine
Neurology project: http://artandsciencethewintertree.blogspot.co.uk/?view=magazine http://theprojectedtree.blogspot.co.uk/
Website: http://www.andrewcarnie.co.uk
Archive of work: http://andrewcarnie.org.uk/archive/index.html
Supported by The Artists Agency: https://www.theartistsagency.co.uk/andrew-carnie/
All images: courtesy of the artist Andrew Carnie
Andrew Carnie Artists: Art: Art Work: Science: Art and Science: Science and Art: SciArt: Art Science: Drawing: Print: Photography: Installation: Video Art: Paint: Painting: Oil Painting: Paint Online: Watercolour Painting: Drawing: Sound Art: Sculpture: Modern Art: MOMA
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