Installation View: Glasgow Science Centre, Scotland | Exhibition: Maurice Doherty, Glasgow International Festival (2008)
SEARCHING FOR MY SOUL
Format: Living Sculpture / Maurice Doherty
Location: Everywhere I am between 4th March 2008 – 29th January 2024
Duration: 15.9 years
Date: 4th March 2008 – 29th January 2024
Photographic Documentation (2008): Joe Connolly
“Searching For My Soul” involved the effort to exist for an additional 15.9 years after March 4, 2008. During this period, trillions of cells in my body died and were renewed. By the end of the 15.9 years, none of the original cells remained, and my body was composed entirely of new matter.
During this time, my epithelial cells, such as skin cells, had the shortest lifespans, dying and being renewed in as little as five days. Non-epithelial cells, like those within my intestinal tissue, took the longest to change, up to 15.9 years. After this process, the physical transformation was most evident in my face.
Photographic Documentation Of Action (Detail): Maurice Doherty | Photograph by Joe Connolly (2008)
Photographic Documentation Of Action (Detail): Maurice Doherty | Photograph by Clemens Wilheim (2024)
