BodyWorlds 4
Today i went to the Bodyworlds 4 exhibition. To be honest I didnt know what to expect. I was disgusted and amazed. Fascinated and disturbed.
Although all the people/bodies consented I can't understand why people would want to donate their body to science so that people can see the inner workings of how our body works up close and personal.Also I didn't like the foetuses put on display, as they definitely did not give their consent. They looked surreal in a glass box arranged in order of age and very distasteful. The most disturbing was seeing little kids with their parents as the exhibiton is for children over ten and adults!
As for the humans on display, some of them you could imagine what they may have looked like, as they have been preserved so amazingly well, the ones with their eyes intact look haunting and give them emotion. You cannot help but wonder what they were like and who they were.
The bodies were arranged in imaginative ways, one from a scene of Casino Royale, others doing various forms of exercise. One was split in half like a scene from the Matrix. My favourite was a woman whose skin was stuck to a rock, she was arranged so that she looked as if she was coming out of the rock leaving her skin (and hair) behind.
The inventor of the technique has critics and fans alike, I think I will sit on the fence with this one. The bodies (or models) allow the public and medical professionals to examine the body in detail, but is it not a glorified freak show? The people have consented and donated their bodies in the name of "science", but it still felt disturbing to go and see them in various positions like waxworks from Madame Tussauds.
You were not allowed to take photos so heres one I found on the web:
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