We went to the Myth of the Human Body exhibit in the AFP community suburbs of Taguig. The building itself (called Neo Babylon, i kid you not) is decorated on its facade with what seems to be precise stone cuts of the gods in aptly massive proportion. Atlas was at the top. He seemed so precariously tilted you feared he'd drop the globe.
The exhibit itself was a mix of bad copy ("the duodenum is shaped like a chubby eggplant" and "the exhibit over 20 millions people has seen!"), choppy and hurried tour spiels (I did some consultancy in the Met Museum and this shit would never fly there), a confusing video of the workings of a birth and amazingly preserved, mind-blowing specimens with divided parts that put the "uh" deconstructed the whole thing left you in a head-shaking, confused mess. Well, if that didn't make you self-conscious of your biological cogs and screws then you're certainly one tough cookie. It's easy to see how cannibals and/or zombies see you as walking lunches after all that.
My favorite is called The Red Man. A human shape with toes pointed and raised off the floor a couple of inches made entirely (or so they claimed) out of plastinated blood vessels. Also, the man holding the skin like a molted carapace in a gentlemanly pose is uber creepy. Gives whole new-Lecter meaning to "skin suit."
It was worth the price though. And, yes, we noticed that Lydia's Lechon is one of the sponsors.
Oh, and there was strictly no photos allowed inside with the specimen dioramas so all I got was this lousy pix with the exhibit site map. Yep, each system is divided into its own Grecian god. Why Hades is designated as the circulatory system is a marvel of shoddy analogy and PR contortion.
This exhibit runs til April, I think.
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