ΚΡΙΣΙΜΟΙ ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ: ΑΜΒΕΡΣΑ – ΑΘΗΝΑ

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    The exhibitions Urgent Conversations: Athens–Antwerp and Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens are a collaboration between EMST and M HKA, a theoretical and visual dialogue, based on works from the collections of both museums, which includes more than 70 works structured in 22 topics.   

    28.04.2017 - 07.01.2018        

    M HKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen - Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen

    EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art - Kallirrois Avenue & Amvr. Frantzi Str., Athens 11743

    Jimmie Durham

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    ©Courtesy of Christine König Galerie, Vienna
    The Names of the Team of Scientists who Submitted an Article on the Human Chromosome 14 in Nature Magazine, February 2003., 2003
    Jimmie Durham
    Mixed Media , 130 x 100 cm

    On three wooden panels joined by screws and plastic wire, Jimmie Durham attached (in print or writing) the names of 99 scientists who, in 2003, identified 1050 genes and 393 pseudogenes, about 96% of what constitutes the Chromosome 14. Humans have in their genetical code two copies of this chromosome, each inherited from each parent. It represents about 3,5% of our total DNA and its genes perform various roles in the human body. Through this discovery, 60 disease genes have be localized as well as 2 areas of crucial importance for the study of our immune system.

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