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Body As a Negative (Paperback)
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Body As a Negative (Paperback)
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Treated for a rare tumor, the young photographer of Polish origin
has transformed her illness and her body, scrutinized by science,
into a remarkable work of art. In this work Izabela Jurcewicz deals
with traumatic memories written in the body on a cellular level.
She was an interorgan tumor patient, one of 300 cases worldwide,
where science had few answers to the cause and how to proceed. This
experience of a patient being 'on view', researched and scanned,
coined her relationship with the camera and ways of seeing a human.
These medical experiences, especially surgeries, live as a
photographic negative in her body and life, which henceforth
produce images, including the ones that form this book. In the act
of return, Izabela replaces the invasive surgical instrument with
her camera as a receptive device to register, merge and enable a
ritual of healing. To synchronize the level of knowledge in her
body and mind, she reperforms the trauma under her conditions and
rewrites her memories, aiming to change them at a cellular level.
At the same time this work gives her perspective to see and support
her father, who at that time is going through intensive cancer
treatment. The project highlights the process of emphatic
engagement that brings dimensionality to the body and self again
and grows a capacity to join with the suffering of others. "By
rewriting her story in a photographic face-to-face, by taking back
her body and telling the story on her own terms, by creating a link
with suffering but also a link with life and with others (in this
instance with her own father, treated for cancer), the work of
Izabel Jurcewicz deploys the full power of enhanced auto-fiction."
- Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents 2020
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