ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a selection of artworks either inspired by or strongly resonant with radiographic imagery or concepts. It allows the works to speak for themselves accompanied by some brief contextualisation. Within medical imaging the abstracted representations of internal anatomical reality, typically rendered in greyscale are perhaps more palatable to scrutinise on a daily basis than the reality of human flesh lacerated by trauma or ravaged by disease. Most of Marilene Oliver's work draws very heavily upon medical imaging technology, using CT and MRI datasets as a template from which she shapes extraordinary sculptures. The political dimension of Oliver's CT-based artwork is unequivocal, but utilises the body morphology of an individual unrelated to the tragic events that inspired it.
