Jill Magid
Installation view, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, 2005.

Head

2005

A forensic artist is asked to make a 3D facial reconstruction of a subject in ecstasy. She is provided with the standard elements of her trade: a skull, hair sample, and a forensic report. 

The skull was produced from cat scans of my own taken at the Utrecht Hospital in the Netherlands. I filled out a standard forensic report, describing myself as missing, in a state of ecstasy. The head is realized from this material alone, without the forensic artist ever having met her missing subject. 

Installation view, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, 2005
Installation view, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, 2005
Installation view, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, 2005.
Installation view, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, 2005.
Head (in process). 2005
Head (in process). 2005