DNA and the secrets of life

”DNA and the secrets of life” (2003)
100 x 100 x 130 cm
Painted iron
Construction

One of the greatest discoveries of the 20th century – the discovery of DNA’s molecule – played, in the last 50 years, an extremely important role in our society.
Heredity and related issues are responsible for the most fantastic research advances as well as the biggest controversies: from genetically modified organisms to cloning. DNA is the structure for all life forms, it contains every property, tendency, rule
and motivation.
This work shows the molecule’s apparent simplicity and its connections – the most photogenic molecule, the most popular, the one with the most public notoriety. Show me your DNA, I’ll tell you who you are and what you’ll be, where you came from
and where you are going.

Regarding the 50th anniversary of the discovery of Twin Screw and its commemorative programme, Faculdade de Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL), Instituto Gulbenkian da Ciência (IGC) and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG), in a joint initiative with the support of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), decided to do an exhibition, with young plastic
artists - senior students and recently-graduated artists, in Painting or Sculpture, by the Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa (FBAUL).
This exhibition was the result of an invitation done to seven artists who accepted the challenge of plastically translating a world in the forms that are in its origin.