On Being Imaged presents the reiterative re-imaging of the body using personal medical archives and varied image-making methods. These methods engage with aspects of transparency which are imperative to the production of the image/s evident in the practices of darkroom printing, screen printing and projection which employ film negatives, meshed screens and most importantly require light and, at times, its complete absence.
Each imaging abstracts its form further from the personal. Boyer uses the term ‘medicalized abstraction’ stating that "radiology turns a person made of feelings and flesh into a patient made of light and shadows"
Radiography collapses the body into a singular plane. Light rays, soundwaves and photographic processes fracture and reduce the body to an image, flat and uninhabitable. The body within this medical space becomes trapped in its representation by data and imaging; corporeal autonomy dematerialises and the self becomes depersonalised. The body is now a non-body, a one-dimensional trace, a projected image.
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On Being Imaged presents the reiterative re-imaging of the body using personal medical archives and varied image-making methods. These methods engage with aspects of transparency which are imperative to the production of the image/s evident in the practices of darkroom printing, screen printing and projection which employ film negatives, meshed screens and most importantly require light and, at times, its complete absence.
Each imaging abstracts its form further from the personal. Boyer uses the term ‘medicalized abstraction’ stating that "radiology turns a person made of feelings and flesh into a patient made of light and shadows"
Radiography collapses the body into a singular plane. Light rays, soundwaves and photographic processes fracture and reduce the body to an image, flat and uninhabitable. The body within this medical space becomes trapped in its representation by data and imaging; corporeal autonomy dematerialises and the self becomes depersonalised. The body is now a non-body, a one-dimensional trace, a projected image.