Orshi Drozdik took pictures of anatomical female wax models exhibited in medical and science museums throughout the world for almost two decades for the photo-series titled Adventure in technos dystopium.

In THE manufacturing the self; Medical Venus installation the model used for the setting, in which she could depict herself was the first, two-hundred-year-old anatomical tool. The artist saw the Medical Venus in early-1970s and photographed later in 1976 in Budapest Semmelweis Museum of the History of Medicine and in 1976 she used as photography in her art in and 1993 “casted her body in medical venus mold”. THE life-size statue is Orshi Drozdik’s symbolic self-portrait and a critical representation of the female body exposed to the medical gaze.

Medical Venus is the central piece of the installation series entitled Manufacturing the Self. The Hungarian audience could see its pair under the name Manufacturing the Self; body self in 2001 in Ludwig Museum, while the piece exhibited now in Semmelweis Museum of the History of Medicine is part of the installation titled manufacturing the self; medical erotic, was exhibited in Modem Debrecen in 2011 and in Kicell Museum (Budapest) in 2013 and now it belongs to its collection.