From Chelsea Manning’s DNA Springs an Art Show – New York Times

The 3D-printed portraits, titled Probably Chelsea, will hang on fishing line from a dropped ceiling in the center of the gallery. The gallerys director, Iliya Fridman, said, The Probably Chelseas will be in a lot of different places on the gender and race spectrum. It really demonstrates that there are so many elements of DNA that are common to humans.

The show isnt supposed to be about WikiLeaks, Mr. Fridman said, but sometimes the political parallel is too powerful to resist. A super-powerful dynamic happening here is that the freedom one could gain by defining ones own DNA in a variety of ways is really metaphorical to the freedom the entire country could gain from releasing secret data, Mr. Fridman said.

Mr. Fridman said the show would also feature images from a graphic short story illustrated by Shoili Kanungo, Suppressed Images, that recounts the collaboration between Ms. Manning and Ms. Dewey-Hagborg. The story ends with an image of Ms. Manning going to a gallery after her release.

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