Simon Foxton, Bella Freud, Felder Felder, Fred Butler, Jodie Harsh, Lily Cole, Marios Schwab, Namalee Bolle, Peter Jensen, Ross Phillips and Shona Heath

Sep 24 2007

The Replenishing Body

In 2007, SHOWstudio partnered with Evian to devise a fun, interactive video installation. Visitors to a Central London Gallery were invited to make a one second video recording of a close-up section of their body, which was then added to a constantly moving, composite video portrait, forming one big replenishing body. See stills, films and a Polaroid gallery documenting the installation here.

More in this project

Celebrity Gallery
Here's one we made earlier: See the 'The Replenishing Body' films our special guests - models, stylists and fashion designers - came up with
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Public Gallery
Polaroid Gallery
Thumb through the Polaroids captured during 'The Replenishing Body' installation - from celebrity visitors to the opening party and beyond
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Here's one we made earlier: See the films our special guests - models, stylists and fashion designers amongst them - came up with when SHOWstudio asked them to try The Replenishing Body interactive installation for themselves

Public Gallery

Polaroid Gallery

Thumb through the Polaroids captured throughout The Replenishing Body's week-long installation in London's Beyond The Valley in September 2007, including our celebrity visitors to the opening party, and beyond.

About

In 2007, SHOWstudio partnered with Evian to devise The Replenishing Body, a fun, interactive video installation. Created by Ross Phillips, the installation design was inspired by the fact that the human body is made up of 60% water which is renewed every six weeks, hence a constantly 'replenishing' body. Representing that concept through a visual interactive, in September 2007 visitors to the gallery/boutique Beyond The Valley, London were invited to make a one second video recording of a close-up section of their body using a 25-sction touch-screen video grid. These mini-films were then added to a constantly moving, composite video portrait, the images combining together in unusual and unique fashions and forming one big replenishing body.

See a selection of stills captured by the public, a range of videos created by our 'special guest' celebrities - including Lily Cole, Simon Foxton and Jodie Harsh - and a gallery recording visitors to the exhibition via the age-old instant gratification photographic means of Polaroid.