Sentences with phrase «bovine brain matter»

Other works have been impregnated with actual bovine brain matter, the root of mad cow disease paranoia that gripped Britain in the 1980s when the artist was a boy.

Three wall sculptures made up of preserved bovine brain matter, plastic and steel were also among Hiorns's pieces on display, which Ms Little said «challenged» gallery - goers perceptions as they were viewing something which could once see and feel.

Lucy Skaer's suspended whale skull — the show's big highlight — finds an echo in Roger Hiorns's installation, where bovine brain matter is turned into little pellets, and where a jet engine has been ground to dust and spread like a slick over the gallery floor.

Roger Hiorns, whose sculptures have housed bovine brain matter and fungus - like accretions of beguiling, decaying blue crystals, cites BSE as a tipping point of a public crisis of confidence in the ruling elite.

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Cows with bovine spongiform encephalitis have holes in their grey matter, which give their brains a spongy look.

Viewing Hiorns» canvases, our numb digits slowly warming, we might interpret the washes of brain matter as an allusion to both the blinking out of consciousness at the moment of death, and to incidences of Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in abattoir workers exposed to bovine cerebral tissue — an effacement of the self by the violence of Capital.