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With the aim of opening our creation centre to the public and to other art forms, Van Grimde Corps Secrets is organizing a series of exhibitions in the coming years. For the premiere at Espace Corps Secrets, I chose two artists from Edmonton who have been collaborating with the company since its performative exhibition\u00a0The Body in Question(s).\u00a0<\/em>Their near-encyclopedic vision of the body and hybrid practices clearly resonate with my artistic interests. EMBODIMENT features two works that are intimately connected with my\u00a0vision of the body as both an ancestral entity transmitting memories, and organic technology in a state of constant transformation.<\/p>\n In\u00a0Deep Connection<\/em><\/strong>, a multimedia installation\u00a0<\/strong>by Maril\u00e8ne Oliver and Gary James Joynes, incorporating sculptural elements and virtual reality, a single body floats prone in virtual reality space. The viewer can walk around her and dive inside her body. Her hand is outstretched, waiting for a human connection\u2026<\/p>\n In\u00a0Evolving Anatomies<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0Sean Caulfield, Maril\u00e8ne Oliver and Scott Smallwood\u00a0worked together to create a wall of images that contrast and combine anatomical representations from the Renaissance to the present day\u2026<\/p>\n These works form a dialogue with\u00a0Eve 2050<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em>*\u00a0\u00a0They explore the relationship between the physical and the virtual,\u00a0the perception of our body connected to our evolving knowledge of anatomy, the human reinjected into the digital\u2026<\/p>\n* These two installations were created for the exhibition\u00a0Dyscorpia<\/a><\/b><\/i>\u00a0(Edmonton Spring 2019) itself inspired by\u00a0Eve 2050\u00a0<\/i>and featuring the web-series. The scanned body in\u00a0Deep Connection<\/b><\/i>\u00a0is also part of\u00a0Eve 2050: the Stage Production<\/i><\/h6>\n\n\t\t\t