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The core principle of the medical gaze revolves around the pursuit of

clinical precision and uniformity, often overshadowing individual patient

experiences. It aspires to 'flatten' these experiences into predetermined

medical frameworks for efficient treatment. Instrumental in the

development of modern medical science and the medical profession,

the medical gaze has shaped the social reception of illness and its

resultant stigmatization, reducing people living with chronic illness and

Type 1 Diabetes to broken bodies.

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These power dynamics that exert control over patients have

transcended actual medical practices, permeating the surrounding

bureaucracy. To transform the diseased body into a passive subject of

clinical scrutiny, intellectual inquiry, and scientific examination, it must

first be stripped of its potential to evoke emotion. As a result, the body,

medical packaging, medical data, and the clinical environment are

surrounded by precise visual coding, facilitating engagement with

illness in a detached, objective, and clinical manner.

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This exhibition seeks to reclaim the body by infusing subjectivity into the

discourse surrounding illness. Seeking to transcend the confines of

conventional biomedical representation, we embark on a mission to

interrogate, appropriate, and ultimately challenge the limitations

imposed by the medical banal. Delving into themes such as abjection

and touch, temporality and medical data, and reproduction and

repetition, a multifaceted and often contradictory narrative is explored.

Instead of constructing work that speaks to a single body, this

reclamation effort seeks to explore the body as a complex, volatile, and

creative force that lies outside of the biomedical view of the body as a

discreet entity.