Joana Ricou
Art & Science
portfolio
I'm interested in the idea that we each are many – and that from moment to moment, we shift, split, merge, cooperate, compete or ignore ourselves.
Ms. Henrietta Lacks
This series of portraits attempts to restore the likeness of Ms. Henrietta Lacks, the progenitor of the HeLa cell line.
Other self (the human microbiome)
This series of living paintings and prints explore the human microbiome and our surroundings.
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
This series includes oil paintings, transfers on wood and on paper and it explores the parallels between the artistic processes and the biological processes of memory making and recall.
A study in oil painting of the emerging identity of the immortal cell line, HeLa.
HeLa cells searching
60 Kilos of Human Being (Hydrogen, Oxygen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Sulfur)
This installation explores the chemical composition of the human body.
Multitudes
This series explores different distinctions and boundaries defined in the human body by biology.
I'm another title
Surface Markers
I'm always interested in new ways of getting to know ourselves and each other that don't involve looking at a face. In this project, I invite you to consider what the objects you are carrying with you, right at this moment, may say about who you are, where you've been and where you are.
2013 - present
Evo-Repro: Painting with Natural Selection
SPARK AWARD
Fellow at STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University
Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
2012-13
I'm another title
Magic Mirror
This interactive piece explores the parallels between organic and technological memory.
2013
Multitudes
From moment to moment, we shift, split, merge - compete, collaborate and ignore ourselves...
2011-12
Joana Ricou, copyright 2013