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Biomedical Imaging Unit

Heinrich & Palmer

Anna Heinrich and Leon Palmer have worked together since the early 1990s, creating multi-media installations and interventions in response to a wide range of sites and locations. They are fascinated by the blurring of boundaries between real and virtual space, light, material and architecture.

Anna collecting samples at WSA
Anna collecting samples at WSA

In 2021, they started a 1 year residency at the Winchester School of Art and came to the BIU to see how our imaging could help them.

The Inner Worlds Project explores a range of otherwise invisible forms, structures and systems that flow through our everyday world.

Our high resolution Quanta 250 SEM has been used to capture high resolution images from found material, gradually zooming in to reveal the finest detail and collating the images into seemless movies.

"Fantastic journey - The Derelict - deep in a small sample of dry moss, this large diatom ruin is surrounded by hundreds of smaller diatoms. Our world is made up of the otherworldly. These are our wormholes from our perception of the everyday into an imaginative, shape shifting inner world. We are in the process of making seamless connections between these worlds"

Images, videos and text © Heinrich & Palmer.

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