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Pharmaceutical Art Part 2: Shelf Life

“Fifteen anonymous medicine cabinets, seven artists, one doctor, the result? Shelf Life" - an exhibition mounted by the Two10 Gallery. Fifteen medicine cabinets, with annotations by the contributors and several artisitic interpretations exploring the the concept. Additional comments by a healthcare professional. "Shelf Life disentangles some of the myths behind our home healthcare."

I think the PDF version of the show's catalog is actually a better experience than the flash-based online, interactive version.

"The artists all refer – either directly or indirectly – to the themes of loss and memory that suffuse so many of the anonymous essays written by the owners of the ‘real’ cabinets. Perhaps the potency and power of medicine cabinets lies in the fact they not only contain products intended for bodily use – and thus signify the intimate, personal and sometimes painful – but because the odours and scents held within stimulate the autobiographical memory. Long after we have forgotten the face, the word, the event, or the image, the smells in our medicine cabinets will remind us of times long past.The medicine cabinet is our door to the present, past and future."

Comments | Link Cosmos | Permalink | 10/9/2002 08:59:08 PM