We change the algorithms; we reverse the rules. How about a sick-leave for everyone! In an abstract society at the peak of its growth, let us talk about a matter that should never become a subject of speculation. We demand a place for the materiality of a body. The exhibition entitled ‘Creative Sick States: AIDS, CANCER, HIV’ aims to cast a spell on our reality where there is no space for the body, in particular, the seropositive body, the one after mastectomy, with abnormal abilities, dependencies, pains, panic attacks, and inflammations. We assume that illness is the real, and patients’ problems are social challenges that we need to deal with together. Health is fiction: an impossible ideal to achieve. We need to normalize and socialize the disease because health has died, or perhaps it has never existed? /// © Copyright by Galeria Miejska Arsenał & Authors 2021 /// www.arsenal.art.pl
