Exploded View Organs, 2003

This exploded view of a body – with male and female plug-in genitalia – allows for rapid medical examinations and instant sex changes.

Joep van Lieshout is obsessed by systems. All systems have a good side and a bad side, possibilities and restrictions. An individual can depend on a system, profit from it or be enslaved by it. Human systems, like those created by the internal human organs, add an aesthetic dimension: how organs work and how they look is magnificent. Who was the designer?