This short video is made using footage of myself trying to imprint a trace of my (wet) body into an enlarged print of the brain scan that confirmed my mother’s early onset Lewy Body Dementia diagnosis. After my wet body smudged the ink in the print, I traced the contours with fluorescents, just as the Ioflupane 123 highlighted my mother's dopamine transporters.

Marilène Oliver works at a crossroads between new digital technologies, traditional print and sculpture, her finished objects bridging the virtual and the real worlds. Oliver uses various scanning technologies, such as MRI and CT to reclaim the interior of the body and create art works that allow us to materially contemplate our increasingly digitized selves. Marilène Oliver is an white settler Anglo-French currently living and working in Amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton), in Treaty 6 Territory where she is an assistant professor in the Art & Design department at the University of Alberta.