"Isabel Cordeiro’s project for the Het Wilde Weten focuses on produces of identification. The work anticipates the near future, when ID cards are incorporated into the body. Existing in time and space implies an ongoing exchange between people and their environment. Our bodies leave behind subtle traces and imprints: an exchange of textile fibers by grazing a passerby’s jacket, a partial imprint of a foot on muddy ground, a lost hair on a train seat. The realization that these elements are proof of our existence and that they can scientifically be linked back to us is both frightening and liberating; frightening because it actualizes a form of control; liberating because it also generates a ground for the reinvention of our identity. This motivated Cordeiro to develop the Counter Evidence Kit, using recent technological developments in forensics and biometrics in order to create a curiously self-referential ID set. CEK is a portable suitcase containing objects that carry traces of all Cordeiro’s ‘distinctive features’. These traces become an extension of her self, which can be used by others. The kit reverses the principles of a forensics kit: instead of collecting evidence, it allows for planting it." (text from flyer)