New Psychedelia of Industrial Healing is a daily cycling bio-installation, adopting the structure of durational performance and sculpture, meditating on medical treatments which the artist began 20-years ago. Each daily composition exposes disability through a process of bio-ritual: the embodiment of biopharmacology, biocitizenship, and the unveiled autobiography of a daily ritual, private self injection, and the treatment of genetic disease. Within the altars assembled, documented and connected through Instagram, live cells are arranged among unprecious objects. The syringe creates new psychedelia of visual meditations, interjecting social media algorithms, and reclaiming a long-standing alienation. Each image confronts questions around “Who defines celebration while policing the expression of the disabled?” A selection from over a hundred of her images allow us to linger with this experiment in de-stigmatization.
Curated by Steffanie Ling
Presented in partnership with Images Festival
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Sharona Franklin is a Vancouver based artist and writer who has exhibited both locally and internationally. Franklin's work disseminates a personal mythology of gender, class, bio-citizenship, and botany.
