The Shape of Suffering
Votive Intermediaries of Pain explores how pain, an experience both universal and deeply private, has been given form across history. Across cultures and centuries, artists, patients, and observers have tried to make the invisible visible, translating sensation into gesture, the body into image, and anguish into something that can be seen. In doing so, they have created objects that act as intermediaries, moving between self and society, science and faith, the living and the divine.
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