Pain Studies (A Kinder Place)
Pain Studies (A Kinder Place) is an emergent durational exhibition that took place over the course of 27 days as my MFA thesis exhibition. Housing the furniture, objects, and pain management devices from my bedroom, 115 drawings, 250 photographs,150 screenshot cell phone notes, 12 bread-based sculptures, and my own physical body, I occupied the gallery space for the duration of the month. Making with the fluidity of my ever-moving painscape, the installation, too, remained in motion while I worked and practiced within it. Exercising the care-based rituals of stretching, embodied movement and dance that previously took place within the privacy of my bedroom walls, practicing publicly invited viewers to bear witness to the intimate processes required to care for a body with pain as part of a spatial extension and exploration of a body with chronic illness.