ANTI-AGING AND HUMAN CONTAMINATION

Lynn Hershman Leeson

From the ubiquity of Botox and plastic surgery to far more niche and extreme attempts to battle the effects of aging, artist Lynn Hershman Leeson reflects on the human obsession with youth and immortality. Now, with new serums being developed that use an individual’s DNA, these technologies go beyond surface interventions in human biology. Could the age-old quest for immortality be closer at hand? What questions should we be asking?

A co-commission of Protodispatch and Lux Magazine