Simon Dybbroe Møller

For the video Bag of Bones, Simon Dybbroe Møller made a 3D scan and animation of the body of a naturally mummified 2,300-year-old Iron Age human found in a Danish swamp. Now a digital object, the body breathes again, rhythmically inflating and deflating. It seems to reunite ‘animation’ with its Latin root anima (breath, soul).
    As a child, the artist encountered the body in the museum where his parents worked. Since then the body has slowly flattened, becoming less of a three-dimensional object and resembling more a two-dimensional image.
    The large-scale color photographs Baby I and Baby II show an infant behind metal fencing. Which side the viewer or subject is on remains unclear.
    Working across media, Møller explores how we give images emotional power—and how we yearn for them to affect us directly.