Hannah Wilke
Intra-Venus Series (installation view)
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Intra-Venus Series No. 9, October 26, 1991
Tag: illness
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Lover’s Letter), 1991
Hysteria vs. Epilepsy.
Because of the “convulsions” associated with “hysteric paroxysm” (which were often actually induced by the physicians themselves, before home devices were brought about), epileptic fits and attacks of hysteria were not infrequently confused.
Hysteria & Neurasthenia. J. Mitchell Clarke, 1905.
Anonymous, Venus Esquilina, c. 50 d.C, Marmol.
Anonymous, Portrait of a Woman, c. 1480
Hannah Wilke, Intra-Venus series
Hannah Wilke, Intra-Venus Series #3, August 17 and August 9, 1992
Hannah Wilke, Intra-Venus Series #1, June 15 1992/January 30, 1992
Hannah Wilke, Intra-Venus Series #13, 1991-92
INTRA-VENUS is Hannah Wilke’s last work. She died on January 28, 1993 of complications from Lymphoma. During the later stages of her illness, she collaborated with her husband, Donald Goddard, on a series of photographs documenting the realities of her physical and mental transformation.
Damien Hirst – Nothing is a Problem for Me Anymore (2011-12)
Hirst began work on the ‘Medicine Cabinets’ while in his second year at Goldsmiths with Sinner (1988). Constructing the MDF unit at home, he filled it with the empty packaging of his grandmother’s medications, which he’d requested she leave him upon her death.
Artist’s statement:
“You can only cure people for so long and then they’re going to die anyway. You can’t arrest decay but these medicine cabinets suggest you can.”
Hannah Wilke, Intra-Venus Series
Hannah Wilke, Intra-Venus, 1992-3, c print, edition 1/3, 26 x 39 x 1/3 in. each.
Ray Osborn, from Woad
Little Bristling Soul 