agents (2007)

Artists: Herwig Turk, Paulo Pereira

18 photoss, 100cm x 80cm,

Lambda print, mounted on aluminium

Agents consists of a series of six portraits of equipments collected form a research laboratory. Taken away from their usual context, these pieces of equipment loose their visual relation with their normal functions and acquire the status of sculptural objects. Consisting on three different views (one frontal and two side views), each portrait is also reminiscent of the techniques of anthropometric identification of recidivist criminals used in forensic sciences.