'Jelly Baby 3', 2004 by Mauro Perucchetti (British)
Perucchetti works in polyurethane, a notoriously difficult resin
made of many small, unstable urethane molecules in long chains. He
creates works which are water-clear, strong and last forever. On
one level, this work uses the jelly baby as a metaphor for cloned
humans, which are identical to one another yet potentially not like
other humans. On another level, it speaks to our increasing
tendency to see human beings as chemical assemblages that
temporarily stabilise the bases of DNA into long durable and
comprehensible chains for the duration of our lives.