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Three to see at Manifesta in Zurich

Our pick of works from the roving European biennial

Gareth Harris
13 June 2016
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Michel Houellebecq, Is Michel Houellebecq OK? (2016)

Visitors can see the results of the surgeon Henry Perschak’s full-body check-up of the French novelist. Perschak said that Houellebecq is interested in the aesthetics of medicine. “We talked for hours about image results from an artistic and diagnostic point of view”, the doctor writes in the catalogue.

• Helmhaus

Mike Bouchet, The Zurich Load (2016) Anyone who excreted faeces in Zurich on 24 March contributed to Mike Bouchet’s site-specific sculpture made with human waste. The artist created the pungent piece in the Werdhölzli wastewater treatment plant. Philipp Sigg, an engineer at the plant, described the work as “spectacular”.

• Löwenbräukunst

Torbjørn Rødland, Intra- and Extraoral (2016) Rødland confronts our fear of toothache in photographs filled with cakes and rotting molars. The images were produced with the dentist Danielle Heller Fontana. “Torbjørn is quiet, almost a softie,” she writes in the catalogue. “But the photos he produced have nothing quiet or soft about them.”

• Löwenbräukunst

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