Th”is paper attempts an observation of Gergely Vida’s poetry, particularly his collection Mellékalak („Sideforms”), through a bare scientific understanding of life as well as through the presence of visual techniques. ”The biomaterial conditions of life are given meaning by cultural techniques, and vice versa: cultural techniques (and art) prefigure what is known about life. Th”is duality gives simultaneous function to the anthropological horizon, while also leading onto the preceding (or proceeding) corporal reality.