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Wrote for the September issue of @frieze_magazine about the idea of the religious Ex-Voto as corporeal effigy in the work of artists who explore intersections of illness, gender and race. Featuring Jesse Darling, Diamond Stingily, Julia Phillips and the late Donald Rodney. 1/
Jesse Darling& #39;s warped support aids and anthropomorphic hospital equipment resist what medical objects often symbolise to patients; they offer another analysis of hospital spaces and treatment rooms, and the capitalist nature of medicine. 2/
Comfort Station (2017), steel, aluminium, rubber and lacquer, by Jesse Darling 3/
Epistemologies (shamed cabinet), 2018, mahogany, glass, steel, linen, archival binders, concrete, by Jesse Darling 4/
Diamond Stingily& #39;s 2017 Surveillance show dealt with issues of systemic racism and police surveillance in urban African American communities. It includes dolls based on older traditions; anonymised figures that could be trying to stay apart from a culture that oppresses them. 5/
Julia Phillips& #39; & #39;Operator 1, Blinder, Muter, Penetrator, Aborter& #39; (2017) - salt glazed ceramics, brass screws, stainless steel plate, metal wheel table - is a reminder that medical tools used to heal and fix the body can be repurposed as objects of torture and control. 7/
I& #39;ve wanted to write about Donald Rodney for a long time. His work, his short life and huge potential. Rodney& #39;s work tackles inequality across illness, disability and race, and he was way ahead of many artists in using technology in his work. 8/
Psalms (1997) compromised Rodney& #39;s own motorised wheelchair, to which he added a neural computer. It moved around the gallery, mapping the space, a physical representation of the artist who was too ill to attend his own launch. (Rodney died age 36, in 1998) 9/
& #39;In The House of My Father& #39;, 1996-97. The house - a symbol of home and security - is made from Rodney& #39;s own skin, removed during his treatment for sickle cell anaemia, a disease that disproportionately affects people of colour. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rodney-in-the-house-of-my-father-p78529">https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artwo... 10/
Much of Rodney& #39;s work tackles racism, and I thought about Rodney& #39;s & #39;Light box& #39; (1998) a lot during this year& #39;s #BlackLivesMatter 
https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> protests. It features a famous photo of @LFC footballer John Barnes back-heeling a banana skin thrown at him during a game against Everton in 1988. 11/
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