Body as a Negative
Body as a Negative Treated for a rare tumor, the young photographer of Polish origin has transformed her illness and her body, scrutinized by science, into a remarkable work of art.In this work…
Specifikacia Body as a Negative
Body as a Negative
Treated for a rare tumor, the young photographer of Polish origin has transformed her illness and her body, scrutinized by science, into a remarkable work of art.In this work Izabela Jurcewicz deals with traumatic memories written in the body on a cellular level. These medical experiences, especially surgeries, live as a photographic negative in her body and life, which henceforth produce images, including the ones that form this book. She was an interorgan tumor patient, one of 300 cases worldwide, where science had few answers to the cause and how to proceed.This experience of a patient being 'on view', researched and scanned, coined her relationship with the camera and ways of seeing a human.
In the act of return, Izabela replaces the invasive surgical instrument with her camera as a receptive device to register, merge and enable a ritual of
Body as Resource
Type O Negative Negative Symbol
Double Negative
Negative Campaigning
Negative Capability
Negative/Positive
Negative Math
Negative Space
Body as Mirror of the World