Form + Content 1: The Bodies Exhibition

• The Exhibit for Bodies is located on 4th and Euclid in Cleveland, OH. I had originally found through another friend who had seen it early this summer.
• The displays are all set up in the form of a typical gallery setting, allowing you to walk around at your leisure and skip around to different parts of the gallery.
• Overall, every piece of work that was in the gallery was scientific, but also art oriented. Each item on display had an explanation of what exactly you were looking at. A cross section of a knee, the developmental process that a fetus goes through in the first two months of conception, the nervous system of a young adult. The basis of the entire exhibit is meant to invigorate your mind but also to inform you of what your body is really like on a scientific level. How everything fits together, how your nervous system works, what smoking can do to your lungs. It really gives you perspective on what you do to your body on a daily basis.
• It was probably the most odd sensation looking at a once living human being, and looking inside of them. Seeing what they look like from the inside out. It created an almost out of body experience for me. Interest seemed like a natural feeling when looking at the exhibit. Everyone is naturally curious, and I think that everyone wants to know how everything works, what it does, what it looks like.
• All of the full sized human "sculptures" were posed. Some playing basketball, some posing, some holding different objects. The designer[s] considered how they could keep the viewer entertained. Also, the way that the displays were made, clean and pristine and basic, helps draw all of the attention to the item that is on display.
• In all of the wall displays there were facts about that specific area of displays. The way that the type was placed on the backdrop of the displays helped to draw your attention the display[s] that the information was connected with.