Eri silk fibres, wire, silk waste thread
Dimensions variable, 2025
This project focuses on the 19th and 20th century categories of diagnosis and disease, particularly the ‘ill body’ in both humans and dolls. Doll hospitals use the language of medicine and surgery, but yet have managed to devise tender practices outside of their institutional logic. It opens an unexamined space of translation between material culture and medical discourse: the position of ill humans and ill dolls as they manage to accord for each other equivalent practices of care.
Inkjet print on Asarakusui lace paper, 10cm x 7,5 cm, 2025
Photo Credits: Augustine Paredes, Christian Stegmann