Biomechanical Landscape II
In Giger’s pictures, the background often merges with the subjects, absorbing them and feeding off them. Sometimes, the subjects themselves form the backgrounds of the works, such as in the Biomechanical Landscapes series. Titanium bones, exoskeletons and endoskeletons, elastic membranes and flesh, tubes and veins are all mixed together in bodies/machines, corridors of nerves and muscles, tortured cyborgs and sex organs for mass reproduction. The structures depicted in Giger’s works look like parts of huge machines with living creatures built into them. The artist does not seem to have been attracted so much to the functions of the machines as to their nature and the many possibilities they presented. Just like a cell multiplying, the metal in the objects all around us finds its way under our skin and changes us, enriching and altering our bodies forever and expanding our senses.