| RAJKAMAL KAHLON SEPTEMBER 12 - OCTOBER 24, 2009 THE AUGMENTED FLAWS |
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Rajkamal Kahlon (USA, 1974) highlights relations of abuse and power in Did You Kiss The Dead Body? a project that centres around US Military autopsy reports. These autopsy texts describe anonymous Iraqi and Afghan male prisoners, young and old, who have died in U.S. custody. The reports employ a rational, scientific language cataloguing the internal and external details of the men's bodies while attempting to determine a cause of death, ranging from "natural" to "undetermined" to "homicide." Her ink drawings of the autopsy reports shift our attention back to the questionable process of archiving and the reconstruction of a personal history. Did You Kiss The Dead Body? is a reference to the last line of Harold Pinter's Poem "Death," an ongoing project comprised of anatomical ink drawings, painting and installation. |
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