Prostheses are material extension of ourselves into the world. They are the tools and instruments that humans produce, as units of mind and body.
Fragile and imperfect, humans, driven by their will to survive, their needs and desires, subjecting themselves to the forces of their vanity, construct the world with found and invented things.
If this thesis is evident, what then is a prothesis?
What is an artificial hand, what is an artificial foot? Are protheses things outside of humans, or are they essential parts of us? Is at that point the distance between the organic state and the technical state sublated, negated? A prosthesis is possibly the epitome of a thing, a tool, an instrument.
The photographs of the series Hand und Fuß (taken in the workshops of the company ottobock) explore these issues.
