Known for her immersive video installations, Nelly-Eve Rajotte presents Matter. In the depths of flesh, the delicacy of invasive machines, her most personal work to date. Based on her own experience with robot-assisted abdominal surgery, Rajotte’s piece involves an operation conducted by the medical robot Da Vinci, and invites us on a fanciful voyage to the heart of an imaginary patient’s body.

Via a large-format projection that combines real images shot by a camera, ones generated by artificial intelligence, and others modelled in 3D, Nelly-Eve Rajotte explores the growing integration of robotics and intelligent systems in the field of medicine. She also questions the complex relationship between medicine, the body, and women’s health.

This installation is supported by The Québec Government Office in Berlin, and co-presented by MUTEK, with the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

Acknowledgment to the musée d'art de Joliette (MAJ) 

Curator: Ariane de Blois 
Photo Direction: Simran Dewan
Modelisation/Animation 3D: Henri Carreau
Sound Design/Musique: David Kristian

Partners:
Musée d'art de Joliette (MAJ)

The artist would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts for their support.
The artist would also like to thank the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) and Dr. Franck Vandenbroucke-Menu, Chief, Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery and Liver Transplantation, CHUM.