Past exhibition
Clinic
14 June - 1 August 2007
Rémi Faucheux
Open Eye Gallery is proud to present the UK premiere of Clinic, an exhibition that explores the aesthetics of the medical universe through contemporary photography.
Devised by French curator Rémi Faucheux, the project involves 12 photographers, all of whom have explored a different facet of a theme that touches all of our lives. Partly created through artist residency programmes in hospitals, their works deliver an intimate yet critical vision of these spaces and their inhabitants. Photographers: Olivier Amsellem, Constant Anee, Eric Baudelaire, Christophe Bourguedieu, Geoffroy de Boismenu, Peter Granser, Jacqueline Hassink, Albrecht kunkel, Ville Lenkkeri, Matthew Monteith, Mario Palmieri and Stefan Ruiz.
In a parallel project, the editors of the Dutch magazine Useful Photography have selected a series of vernacular or 'found' photographs that relate to the medical universe. These photographs, fragments of the medical world found in scientific journals, instruction manuals, etc., have form a distinct section of the exhibition.Selection: Hans Aarsman, Claudie de Cleen, Julian Germain, Erik Kessels, Hans van der Meer.
Clinic presents "a meditative examination of a world in which science has created a complex network of relationships between the human body and society... [It poses] profound questions about the collective consciousness' perspective on ageing, injury, environment, and the way in which human beings treat one another." Michel Poivert (art historian and curator).
