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shades of blue, 2024
This project, consisting of a series of drawings and an academic article, emerged from an exploration of my own body, using as a starting point a set of photographs documenting physical injuries I suffered during a specific period. This investigation is rooted in the experience of illness and the subsequent death of a loved one, through which I became aware of the fragility of my own body. Every minor accident or seemingly trivial symptom made me think about future illness, and I began documenting my injuries during a period in which I happened to be constantly getting hurt.
The act of documenting these accidents arose as a response to becoming aware of my fragility and vulnerability. This awareness led to a distancing from my own body and prompted me to investigate the relationship between pain and the role of medicine as a scientific discipline in defining what pain is and how it manifests. This made evident the contradiction between a fully subjective experience—such as physical suffering—and its objectification in a medical context. In my argument, this contradiction is linked to the inability of language to fully describe the complexity of pain; yet language is also what contains and enables it, and, to a certain extent, provides its catharsis. This linguistic containment can create a disconnect between the physical sensation experienced and one’s rational understanding of that sensation. The images of my injured body aim to serve as a bridge between these two realms.
The full article can be read in Archives of the Body: The Body in Archiving, an online publication by HFBK Hamburg:
https://archives-of-the-body.hfbk.net/chapters/vulnerable-bodies/shades-of-blue