Michele Wysocki just finished her graduate work at The San Francisco Art Institute in May of 2010. She spent the past two years working on a research project she calls Twice Upon A Time. The work focuses on her experience as an identical twin. More specifically Wysocki considers the repercussions of recent research findings regarding identical twins genetic material. It is not “identical” through and through. On closer examination what appeared to be the same actually varies. Her research practice overlaps her ongoing participation in twin studies at the Institute of Behavioral Genetics located at the University of Colorado Boulder. Denver is home once again and that makes IBG that much closer. Wysocki has revisited IBG as a graduate student and documented various aspects of the studies. She continues to be in touch with IBG both as an artist and research subject.
Before receiving her MFA Wysocki explored science’s relationship to photography and feminist dialogues in her BFA thesis work, Scientificity, at The University of Colorado Denver from 2006-2008. She noticed how the history of science, photography and feminism overlapped in many ways. At times they were in agreement with one another, but for the most part they revealed charged interrelated moments. Wysocki used the scientific aesthetic to authenticate feminine beautification products. She asks the viewer to alternate between the feminine and masculine perspective when viewing the work and ultimately demonstrates that the point of view determines value.