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Pawel Wojtasik: Like a Shipwreck We Die Going Into Ourselves

September 18, 2008—November 1, 2008

The body-interior speaks to our own mortality. Hence, the sight of these inner contours has traditionally been denied us since they are usually encountered only at the risk of enduring great pain and quite possibly death. The surgeon (even within the harshly empirical structures of western medicine) therefore enjoys a rare cultural status as mediator between the exterior and the interior worlds. The surgeon seems to share the iconic status of the artist (or the visionary) within our culture, since both are held to be in possession of a privileged gaze which is able to pass beyond common experience, through surface structures, to encounter a reserved core of reality. - Jonathan Sawday, The Body Emblazoned

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