Apothecary, featuring photographs, wallpaper, and installations, presents a paradise made of medication: a prescription for internal perfection in a dreamscape of drugs. These pills and Rx bottles, multiplied like mass-produced souvenirs, are mirrored and manipulated to enhance their visual symmetry and bright, clean colors. In milky, backlit photographs, prescriptions glow as if in alluring advertisements for a trendy new cosmetic. Strung-up Rx bottles dangle throughout the exhibition like elements of a product display. A wallpaper featuring a pattern of DNA-like structures where each strand is composed of tiny images of individual pills represents an updated, artificial version of our internal codes.
Apothecary offers a perspective on medication with a feminine sensibility, not just in its visual associations with beauty advertisements, but in its sensitivity. The installation of a shelf of medication calls to mind Damien Hirst’s medicine cabinets, yet is decidedly titled After Dalí (The Anthropomorphic Cabinet), referencing his sculpture of a female figure composed of many drawers. Vulnerable and specific rather than cold and generic, Apothecary displays actual prescription bottles printed with my personal information, as well as intimate touches such as the scrawled handwriting in works like Cipher and Code and f u c k (Yellow).
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