Dosed
Trash sculptures created from medical supplies and everyday items.
Each and every day
religiously follow the pattern
let it be beautiful, you shall believe - it will be alright
SAVIOUR IN A SYRINGE
hang on my neck
crusted in diamonds
the kind we can afford to buy
bills are stacking up
shoes get bigger
HIGHER
MY FEET HEAVY LIKE HELL
I can’t get to where you are going
so I move slow, I pray that I make it somewhere
I listen to…
but I breathe so heavy I can't hear
BRAIN MOVES TOO FAST
ANGER and SHAME but a pill helps
don’t drown and play the game
two for breakfast, seven for dinner
stay up, sleep deep
adding sparkle
to the RELEAF
Material investigation into the lived experience of chronic illness. The sculptures are constructed from medical trash. Discarded elements such as syringes, pharmaceutical packaging, beer cans, pills and binded together with crafty materials.
The sterile, the disregarded, and the personal, Amen.
Tension between internal emotional states and the necessity of daily routines when pharmacological maintenance of the body's functional capacity becomes the core of existence. By formally transforming these materials of medical disposal, the trash-sculptures interrogate a fundamental question: How does one negotiate forms of living and being alive when autonomy is directly contingent upon sustained medical intervention? What are the connection points between practising one’s religious and health guidelines as life’s sustainers?
Works function as expressions of dependency, speaking of the critical relationship between the body and the directions, residue in a life navigated at the intersection of routine, orders, will and wan’t.
And if anything - trial, and error.
DETAILS
FORMAT:
3 piece trash sculpture collection
ITEMS:
heavy are the feet of the one
who steps light - shoereligiously, daily - cross
weekly cocktails, but cute - can
CONTENT NOTES
diabetes, rutines
EXHIBITED
Vastavuoroisuuksia
Vantaan taidemuseo ARTSI
12.2. - 31.5.2019
OMVF /
Oulun musiikkivideofestivaali
2021
PHOTOS
Anna Autio