Phantom Limb (2023) is a project exploring the enigmatic and poetic relationship between a human being and the black box that is their interior through the use of a medical ultrasound machine. Amos Peled has been developing methods to perform audio-visual manipulations which transform the ultrasound machine into an instrument that illuminates the inside of the body and expands the space of the artistic act into the organs, under the skin. The work investigates conceptions such as the distance of the human body from the idea of oneself, the hierarchical relationship between the inside and the outside, pain as a poetic message, and the lack of internal symmetry.

About the Artist: I am a multidisciplinary artist, currently using experimental music and technologies, audio-visual installations, and performance art to look at medical technology and medical processes from different perspectives. I transform an ultrasound machine, for example, into an instrument that illuminates the inside of the body and expands the space of the artistic act into the organs, under the skin. Having spent many of my younger years in hospitals, wired to a myriad of medical devices, strung up in doctors’ opinions, the shift in perspective from patient to artist is at the heart of my creative practice.