Iain Ball : Praseodymium Intracrine Signal Aggregate

19 Feb-10 Apr 2016

Overview

Cell Project Space presents ‘Praseodymium Intracrine Signal Aggregate’, the ninth installment of Iain Ball’s Rare Earth Sculpture series. Intracrine refers to a hormone that acts inside of a cell, regulating intracellular events. Steroid hormones act through intracellular (mostly nuclear) receptors and, thus, may be considered to be intracrines. The biological effects produced by intracellular actions are referred as intracrine effects. Praseodymium is a newly commissioned sculptural work, which considers the metaphorical intracrine effects of paranoia as a tropological social agent, which is constantly acting upon and shaping the environment. It represents the random genetic mutation, which can continuously produce anxiety, fear, irrationality, delusion and superstition irrespective of political, scientific, social and economic breakthrough and reformation. In the case of Praseodymium, it is considered and harvested as an energy then transmitted as a signal radiating from inside Cell Project Space.