Exhibit vernissage | pain objects
In The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry wrote that "to have pain is to have certainty; to hear about pain is to have doubt".听听
This influential statement, alongside research into early pseudoscientific anatomical iconography, graphic pathography, and discourses in contemporary ecofeminisms, forms the basis of pain objects, an exhibition featuring new work on the somatic, affective, epistemic, temporal and poetic dimensions of physical pain.听
pain objects will debut an artist book of speculative pain morphologies, based on a collection of sensation maps assembled through a daily practice of body scan meditation. Alongside the internal phenomena of pain, a series of gestures representing the duration of the residency (or a single very long, very painful moment) explores the non-linear, dilatory, and atemporal nature of illness.听听
This exhibition also include pain object, a pneumatic sculpture reflecting on the affective and somatic dimension of being-with the pain of both human and non-human others. It is part of an ongoing sculptural project on disability object relations.听听
Together, these two works respond to the objectification of patient status, pain's resistance objectification in language, and epistemic tensions within the visual culture of medicine.听
Please join us for the panel discussion scheduled right before the vernissage from 14 h 00 to 15 h 30.听
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About Ev Ricky听听
Once described as 鈥減ert鈥� and 鈥測oung鈥� by Vaginal Creme Davis, Ev Ricky (they/them/theirs, xe/xyr/xyrs) is a multidisciplinary visual and literary artist, cultural worker, agender and TME dyke, and white settler. Agender, immunocompromised, and chronically ill with an invisibilized disability, Ev is interested in using bodily forms and processes in their work to tangle with the poetics of access and the non-consensus reality of being in a sick body as a fundamentally unknowable, inarticulable position. Xyr artistic and curatorial work has been presented at Centaur Theatre, Ada X, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, CV2, Entrails Magazine, the FOFA Gallery, the Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts, and in the award-winning anthology of transgender comic art 鈥淲e鈥檙e Still Here鈥�.听 Alongside their current work for the Mich猫le Larose-Osler Library artist residency, xe is听听
working on a comic art manuscript entitled I Wouldn鈥檛 Lie to You. You can follow their work at evricky.com or @ev.r_icky on Instagram.听