DNA molecule

One of the greatest discoveries of the 20th century – the discovery of DNA’s molecule – played, in the last 50 years, an extremely important role in our society.

Heredity and related issues are responsible for the most fantastic research advances as well as the biggest controversies: from genetically modified organisms to cloning. DNA is the structure for all life forms, it contains every property, tendency, rule and motivation.

This work shows the molecule’s apparent simplicity and its connections – the most photogenic molecule, the most popular, the one with the most public notoriety. Show me your DNA, I’ll tell you who you are and what you’ll be, where you came from and where you are going.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Twin Screw and its commemorative program, the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL), the Gulbenkian Institute of Science (IGC) and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (FCG), in a joint initiative with the support of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), decided to hold an exhibition with young visual artists – final-year students and recent graduates in Painting or Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (FBAUL). 

plastic artists – final year students and recent graduates in Painting or Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (FBAUL).

This exhibition was the result of an invitation to seven artists who accepted the challenge of translating a world into the forms that are at its origin.