With Out of Body I fix liquid states that are invisible to the human eye, moving fast, smoothly and collidingly on the substrate during a darkroom performance. Body fluids move into each other, out of each other and around each other. Most body fluids are not shared publicly. They are rarely and hardly out in the open to witness and to observe. The value of body fluids becomes more clear the more difficult it is to get my hands on them so to experiment, to play and to use them. Urine has value for drug testing. IV, IUI, ICSI, sperm banks and frozen eggs are no longer Brave New World-like.

With spit, tears, cervical fluids, urine, mucus, semen, breast milk, menstrual blood and some red wine, I document moments and the liquids’ encompassing movements and capture them on silver-gelatin paper. I continue the process by scanning and reprinting the images using an ink-jet printer. The body-fluid-shapes appear like they are made out of fire while they are actually submerged and made out of water and chemicals. Liquids penetrate each other and merge together and apart to create the image. By exposing and flooding the substrate with light and recording the interferences for seven seconds, the images are then drowned in developer to be cracked open, to grow final and to be fixed. The process and the performance of bodies in the darkroom give the content of the images their forms.