Imogen Hero (She/Her/They/Them)
I am a photographic artist working at the intersection of philosophy, science and photography. Using my knowledge of analogue processes, my practice allows me to explore scientific themes that I am curious about. Predominantly my work focuses on the nonhuman as a way of questioning anthropocentric mindsets that assume the objectivity of human experience and reality. My practice and worldview is greatly influenced by the works of Donna Haraway and Timothy Morton, who’s intersectional approaches to experience help to deconstruct these hierarchical attitudes.
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The images in this installation were created through collaboration with bacteria cultures. Strains of bacteria were grown onto the emulsion of analogue photographic negatives, leaving their traces on the surface of this film. This left an image that has been co-created with the bacteria. An image created in symbiosis.
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Works
Symbiont
The human body is comprised of more microbe than it is of human cells. We as humans exist in the ‘symbiotic real’ with these micro co-inhabitants as well as other ecological entities. This intimacy between lifeforms can often go unnoticed until you become unwell or an outbreak occurs, but the majority of bacteria is beneficial to us, existing in our microbiome alongside other microorganisms. To remind ourselves of our coexistence as ecological beings in the biosphere is to recognise these nonhumans that we share the planet and indeed our very bodies with and to inhabit the Earth consciously as a symbiont.
The images in this installation were created through collaboration with bacteria cultures. Strains of bacteria were grown onto the emulsion of analogue photographic negatives, leaving their traces on the surface of this film. This left an image that has been co-created with the bacteria. An image created in symbiosis.
