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BODIES
The cabinets are simple white shelves, arranged with empty
bottles and packages of prescription drugs. The bottles and
boxes on the shelves form blocks of colour (red, blue, orange,
yellow, white) and although the artist has said that he doesn't
mind if the exact order is changed he thinks it is important
to keep the colour balance.
'I know the medicine cabinets work,
but in many ways. I like all the readings, if you see them
as power structures, a society, or as metaphor for the human
body or even as a comment on capitalism or consumerism…or
pro-medicine or anti-medicine - they are about all these things,
even if you just think it's weird to see them in a gallery.'
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'Someone was looking at the medicine cabinets,
somebody who had worked as a nurse in a doctor's surgery somewhere,
and she stood looking at it, puzzling over it for ages… She
said, 'I can't work out the arrangement.' What she meant was, she'd
worked with a lot of doctors who have their own personality. Basically,
you can tell what kind of a doctor they are by the way they organise
their drugs - what drugs they have closest to hand; where they shelve
barbiturates and the other drugs you use with barbiturates, etc.
But I was unaware of what the drugs do. I just put like with like.
So I quite liked the idea that to a hell of a lot of people they
looked so confident, but then to somebody who knows what's going
on, you know, it's a mess.'
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