Kaarina-Sirkku Kurz‘s photographic work Supernature is dedicated to the phenomenon of aesthetic plastic surgery.
The starting point of her exploration is the accompaniment of surgical procedures. However, the artist never focuses on larger spatial settings, the body as a whole or clinical arrangements. Instead, she picks out individual elements of the bodies being modelled and places them in an aseptic space free of any allusions. Thus, the used apparatuses or body parts are stripped of their bloody, drastic effect and presented as both cute and artificially designed pieces. The photographs are situated in the interplay between subjective desires (for physical optimisation) and objective ideals (in the form of the appearance to be achieved).
If the bodies are reduced to their pure materiality at the moment of the intervention, the photographs also depict their malleable materiality.
Dr. Daniel Hornuff
