Collecting fragments for an imaginary embodiment
Pharmakon (from Greek φάρμακον): 1) remedy; 2) poison; 3) scapegoat
With Beyond Pharmakon, I wish to indicate the disease as a potential for consciousness transformation towards life, memory, and empathy of the individual and in its connectivity as a social body. In their activities, artists, curators, and researchers open up possibilities of discourse as they deal with multileveled and alternative realities and therefore “treat and cure” social awareness.
Portraits
In the work series of Beyond Pharmakon, I portray artists, curators, and researchers by using medical images of their past or current conditions of disease or disablement. The images are mostly X-rays and MRIs that I artistically modify and combine with texts as visual structures and drawings.
