Natalie Perkof

It Is About a Human ( Hands )
2022
Wood veneer on mdf, 80 x 60 cm

The work follows a project called: "It's about a human", which was an artistic intervention in the permanent collections of the Hrdlička Anthropological Museum in Prague. One part showed photographs of several families swapped among themselves and the other part photographs of parts of the legs, hands and faces of about 20 people. The basis of the concept was to ask the viewer several questions.

What does the word family mean? Is family group of people biologically or mentally related? How we understand family nowadays? When we shuffle the individual members of several families and reassemble them into family units without biological relation and without partnership ties, will we know if they belong together or not? If I take a photo of twenty people's legs, will I know if they are good, bad, superior or inferior people?

Formally, the work is made of wooden veneers, which carry a certain haptic quality reminiscent of the human body, and at the same time, the color difference of the veneers refers to the different color characteristics of human skin.