Pratchaya Phinthong, Untitled, 2012

Framed pigmentary print on Arches paper
Edition of 35
25,4 x 29,2 cm, framed 53 x 50 x 3 cm
Pratchaya Phinthong asked to Vichai Malikul, a scientific illustrator, to participate to his project on sleeping sickness.

His contribution was an original drawing representing a sterilized fly. The drawing details with big precision the fly’s head endowed with a trunk stinging, called a proboscis, and through which the animal transmits pathogenic agents.

This processual artwork around the sleeping sickness spreaded in sub-saharian Africa through the installation of 500 traps for tsetse flies.

Pratchaya Phinthong, Untitled, 2012

Framed pigmentary print on Arches paper
Edition of 35
25,4 x 29,2 cm, framed 53 x 50 x 3 cm
Pratchaya Phinthong asked to Vichai Malikul, a scientific illustrator, to participate to his project on sleeping sickness.

His contribution was an original drawing representing a sterilized fly. The drawing details with big precision the fly’s head endowed with a trunk stinging, called a proboscis, and through which the animal transmits pathogenic agents.

This processual artwork around the sleeping sickness spreaded in sub-saharian Africa through the installation of 500 traps for tsetse flies.