through April 6th 2013
Megan Broadmeadow, Harm van den Dorpel, Joey Holder, Katja Novitskova, XYMEMORY/Marlie Mul
Curated by Christopher Kulendran Thomas
Although mostly colour-blind, they are able to change the colour of their skin. They have chromatophores which are elastic sacs containing different pigments. Bands of muscle radiate from each chromatophore and are controlled by neurons from the motor centres in their brain. This allows them to change their colour at will to match their background for camouflage. They eat by deriving some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or Protozoans, typically insects and other Anthropods. First they will inject a neurotoxin into the animal’s brain that kills off its ability to control its own movement but doesn’t paralyze it entirely. Then they produce compounds that affect the victim’s brain and manipulate their behaviour.
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