Self-Portrait (with Large Pharmaceutical) by Ruby Cromer
Photograph
Artist statement: Through the guise of a medical professional, my self-portrait work contends with my experience of interpersonal power dynamics in western medicine. As a “medical impersonator” experimenting with gendered tropes of medical providers, I aim to disrupt the power dynamics inherent to photography and reveal the parallel dynamics in medicine that harm both medical workers and patients. I have a particular interest in using self-portraiture to critique the expectation of self-surveillance placed on disabled people and to investigate elements of performance in my disability experience. My work engages with the double-edged privilege of passing or masking—as straight and gender conforming, as non-disabled, as a professional—all within the confines of a photograph.
Find out more about Ruby at www.RubyCromer.com
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Ruby Cromer
www.RubyCromer.com
Self-Portrait (with Large Pharmaceutical) by Ruby Cromer
Photograph
Artist statement: Through the guise of a medical professional, my self-portrait work contends with my experience of interpersonal power dynamics in western medicine. As a “medical impersonator” experimenting with gendered tropes of medical providers, I aim to disrupt the power dynamics inherent to photography and reveal the parallel dynamics in medicine that harm both medical workers and patients. I have a particular interest in using self-portraiture to critique the expectation of self-surveillance placed on disabled people and to investigate elements of performance in my disability experience. My work engages with the double-edged privilege of passing or masking—as straight and gender conforming, as non-disabled, as a professional—all within the confines of a photograph.
Find out more about Ruby at www.RubyCromer.com