But is it art?

 

Recognise this?

Yes? It’s a sack of clinical waste (medical waste) after autoclave sterilisation.

But is it art? Well, yes it is.

San Antonio artist Sarah Sudhoff continues her exploration of life’s  fragility and resiliency in an exhibition of photographs of medical waste at Artpace. Sarah has much more artwork on her web pages. In photographic series such as “Maternity Ward,” “Wired” and “At the Hour of Death,” Sarah deals with birth, sex and death head-on in images that include nude self-portraits shot in an abandoned hospital, arcane sexual devices used at the Kinsey Institute 60 years ago and swaths of bedding, carpet and upholstery stained with the bodily fluids of the dying.

Her work, which has a haunting beauty, is courageous and unsettling as she forces us to confront the fragility of life and its opposite side, our resiliency.

And, of course, that clinical waste.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/visual_arts/article/Artist-s-works-explore-the-residue-of-life-4067750.php#ixzz2DSHudQiy

 

 

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