Hot Chip – Look at Where We Are (from In Our Heads, 2012)

Tessellate – Alt-J (from An Awesome Wave, 2012)

David Shrigley – Don’ts (from Late Night Tales: Four Tet (Remastered), 2012)

Cyclones – See If I Float (from The Music Sounds Better With Huw, 2009)

Photek – KJZ (from Modus Operandi, 1997)

Ben Folds & Rufus Wainwright – Careless Whisper (from The Best Imitation of Myself – A Retrospective, 2011)

General Fiasco – Don’t You Ever (from Don’t You Ever EP, 2012)

LCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge (from LCD Soundsystem, 2005)

Ben Folds Five – On Being Frank (from The Sound of the Life of the Mind, 2012)

The Killers – Runaways (from Battle Born, 2012)

Artur Rubinstein – Frederic Chopin, Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 (from Chopin Piano Works, 2011)

Rodriguez – I Wonder (Searching for Sugar Man, 2012)

The background story begins at 12:31am on August 5, 1993, when Joseph Paul Jernigan was executed by lethal injection. Jernigan had been sentenced to death following his stabbing and shooting of 75-year-old Edward Hale, who discovered the then 27-year-old Texan stealing a microwave oven. Jernigan spent 12 years in prison before his final plea for clemency was denied. He then agreed to donate his body for scientific research. Anatomists froze his cadaver solid at -73°C, then cryosectioned it at 1 millimeter intervals into 1,871 slices, which were then photographed. The scientists named the experiment the Visible Human Project.

Living cells consist of an aqueous solution inside of a cell membrane. The soft tissues of many living systems are essentially structured water. 50-75% of the human body is H2O. This high proportion of water makes crystallisation within the body occur in two main ways: through dehydration, when minerals crystallise from a saturated solution, and by freezing, when ice crystals are formed. The formation of crystals in living cells is usually fatal.

For the Invisible Human exhibition, OrdinaryKlein presents an installation that echoes the 1,871 slices of Joseph Paul Jernigan. A human body is digitally “sectioned” using MRI scanning, and turned into a template onto which crystals are grown. The body sections are given shape through the crystallisation processes that echo those occuring in the body as it dies.