Under my disgusting skin

Over a decade ago, Ariely underwent gastrointestinal surgery by a state-of-the-art robot. Shortly after his recovery, he discovered that he is the subject of a news item that included documentation from the operating room without his explicit consent, as in a 19th century surgical theater where surgeries were performed before a live audience. The installation addresses the artist’s biographic trauma and the body as an autonomous object; the state of a living body without consciousness and that of disembodied consciousness, both of which belong to one another.