Clinical Study (1), 2022

The artwork pledge

• GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
• REDUCED INEQUALITIES
• SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
• PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS

Tags

• Anthropology
• Archaeology
• California
• Ceramic
• Disability
• Drawing
• Empowerment
• Esotericism
• Feminism
• Hannah Wilke
• Knitting
• Margaret Mead
• Miniature
• Minimalism
• Mythology
• Performance Art
• Prehistory
• Richmond
• Sacredness
• Sculpture 3D
• Social
• Tapestry
• Tarot
• Theology
• United States
• Weaving

About this artwork

Giving us a glimpse into the privacy of a doctor’s appointment, Em Kettner invites us to perversely take a look at a physician examining their patient, the outlines of the disrobed body showing through a thin curtain. Staging a scene that all of us have experienced - standing, mostly naked, in a doctor’s examination room, ready to be poked and prodded - the artist presents it as a performance, a show that is wholly part of disability history. It can be uncomfortable, problematic at times, but is also part of the game of owning a body and dealing with its shortcomings. The two inch high square tiles, snuggled into wooden frames, are Em Kettner’s way of telling a story, each one being a miniature page of a journal with its recurring characters and narrative flow.

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• Em Kettner Clinical Study (2), 2022 François Ghebaly $1,500 Buy now
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