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The Patient

Posted on May 19, 2017

Exhibition Dates: 18 May – 16 July The Patient, addresses the embodied experience of the artist as medical patient, and the medical patient as living subject in contemporary art. It explores the ways in which artists engage with powerful human experiences in the fields of health, biological science and medicine, contributing to discourse on the …read more

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