Elsewhere in the building, 12 other machines are
sequencing DNA while another group of robots are
carrying out biochemical steps which make millions of copies of
specific DNA fragments.
A single DNA
sequence is formed from a chain of four nucleotide bases and if some individuals in a population do not
carry the same nucleotide at a
specific position in the
sequence, the variation is classified as an SNP.
It is curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Andrea Viliani at the MADRE in Naples and it is the outstanding result of the collaboration between a great artist like Walid Raad, who
carried out his own research beyond the boundaries between institutional critique and art engagé, and an undisputed institution like the Museo Donna Regina, which, in the course of its complex history, got a
sequence of site -
specific actions off the ground inside the articulated rooms of its palace, including artists such as Giulio Paolini, Jannis Kounellis and Jeff Koons.