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British artist Paul Fryer has created a large scale installation commissioned for the Guido Costa Projects gallery in Turin. In Loving Memory is born out of Paul Fryer's research into the origins of technology and the labyrinths of science. The elements used to construct the artwork are stainless steel, wax, Plexiglas, human hair, Tesla coils, computer, light system.

The work is inspired by an event which made news at the end of the 19th century. A Western Union lineman, John Feeks, employed alongside others to hang the thousands of kilometres of wire connecting one building to another and providing the city of New York with electricity and information was accidentally electrocuted and his corpse dangled for hours in a tangle of wires above the Manhattan streets, to the horror of thousands of onlookers. His fate became symbol of the perils of technological progress.



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