PAST PROJECTS

Date 04-0202-0000-99 99-98 96-95 94

'HYGIENE: THE ART OF PUBLIC HEALTH', LONDON, 2002

A group exhibition of site specific work at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, curated by Pam Skelton and Tony Fletcher. The exhibition was staged in the fully functioning spaces of this scientific research and teaching establishment, and was accessed by members of the public, staff and students of the school. The artist consulted with epidemiologist Valerie Curtis, and technical staff at the school, before creating the work below for the second floor foyer, just outside the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases.

'Come', 2002
The work made for the exhibition seeks to explore perceptions and taboos surrounding bodily fluids within and outside the body. In particular the work is concerned with the shift in perception due to the prevalence of fluid-related infections such as HIV and Hepatitus C, and the way in which they side-step our evolutionary response to the visible signs of infection.

'L'INCURABLE MEMOIRE DES CORPS', PARIS, 2000

Curated by Stephen Wright, this exhibition inserted the work of 25 international artists into the wards, grounds and other spaces of L'Hopital Charles Foix in Paris. The work below was developed over several months of visiting and working in the hospital, and built on personal experience and consultation with medical practitioners. Ultimately two site-specific works were installed in a patient's single room, and in a shared bathroom, on a temporarily empty ward.

'External Fixators', 2000
Introduced into the patient's bathroom were a set of three cast stainless steel objects, which echoed surgical prosthetics and orthotics: clinical specialisms where technology intervenes in the frailities and limitations of the body. At once protective and invasive, healing and damaging, the objects reflect the ambiguities of such procedures in relation to the embodied human self.

"Arrangment I", 2000
Laying on the empty bed in a single hospital room, were a group of empty, truncated fragments made from polypropylene casting material, using immobilising bandaging techniques. These uncut casts propose a cumulative position that may not be physically therapeutic, but that sheds light on a more internalised body-image, or psychologically significant state.