Chasing Intensities

This work is based on the gesture of recontextualising medical images in public settings. The original images are from Clark’s Positioning for Radiographers, the definitive guide for X-ray technicians, demonstrating how to correctly position bodies in parallel to the imaging plate. Chasing Intensities comprises six of these photographs displayed on lightboxes. The paper becomes opaque partially revealing the image on the reverse. This opacity is like an echo of the clinical gaze, seeing into the body and bringing new images to the surface.