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"The merest schoolgirl when she falls in love has Shakespeare and Keats to speak for her, but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry." (Virginia Woolf)
In collaboration with the country’s leading specialists in the field of chronic pain management, Deborah Padfield explores with chronic pain patients the possibility of finding a visual language for pain.
Pain is indescribable and invisible. Somebody else’s pain is extraordinarily difficult to understand or share. The consequence for the chronic pain sufferer living with pain is often isolation and despair. This project explores whether the collaborative creation of photographs can initiate a mutually beneficial dialogue between science and art, doctor and patient, photographer and subject, viewer and maker.
The photographs are an attempt to make visible what is normally invisible.
'Deborah Padfield's remarkable photographs take us on a journey into pain - an intensive experience most of us would prefer to avoid but all of us will at sometime endure. Her pictures intrigue, fascinate and repel in equal measure; they are sure to stimulate discussion not just among those who work with people in pain but also among those photographers attempting to apply imaginative insight to the human condition.' (Gina Glover, co-founder and co-director of Photofusion).
The book Perceptions of Pain, published by Dewi Lewis will be out in September 2003. (ISBN: 1-904587-02-X, £14.99 hardback, 128 pages, 66 colour photographs)
From September 2003, the Perceptions of Pain exhibition, funded by the Arts Council of England, will be touring around the UK. For further information, please contact Artlink on: 0131 537 6127. |
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