HOSPITAL

In my Hospital series (2020–2021), I created compositions by extracting elements from a clinical environment, focusing on specific objects as if they were portraits. Without the titles, one might not even recognize them as “medical case records.” These paintings were based on photographs of artificial flowers, wall hangings, and printed reproductions of famous paintings found on hospital walls. In these reproductions, their age is evident—they are faded copies. On the hospital walls, a sharp, horizontal dark line separates the emulsion paint from the industrial oil-based paint, evoking the atmosphere of the 1980s and 90s for many of us. Although I have recently had to spend more time in hospitals than expected, these images do not directly recount my personal medical history. Rather, I aimed to evoke the “hospital atmosphere” and, with it, concepts such as illness, trouble, and the sense that “something is not right.”