DIGITOMÉTRIES

AFTER YVES KLEIN

2015

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20 inkjet prints on habotai silk, plastic frames

130 x 130 x 5 cm

Whereas Bertillon invented forensic anthropometry, the French artist Yves Klein (1928–62) invented “anthropometries” – more particularly, “anthropometries of the blue period” – a series of artworks produced by creating imprints on paper of nude models covered in blue paint, who became living paintbrushes.Digitometries are, in a way, ready-made anthropometries: records of single fingerprints left by users on their touch screens, iPads, e-readers, or smartphones.