Photo: courtesy of the artist & Isabella Ritter Gallery, Paris
Sharona Franklin, an artist and a disability rights advocate, draws her raw material from personal experience with chronic degenerative disease in a hybrid practice that intersects with bio-art, crafts, and installation. Addressing the systemic ableism that normalizes bodies and runs through institutionalized medical practices, she reveals the resulting alienation of those who do not conform. With an interest in the tensions that arise between the body, nature, medicine, and technology, she focuses on health precepts, particularly those imposed on the marginalized, the disabled, and children.
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