Medical School

by Raphael Vella

• part of the series ‘Medical School’
• mixed media (collage, different kinds of paper, ink, graphite on paper)
• 25.5cm by 30.5cm artwork size
• 28.5cm by 33.5cm framed size (light oak wood)
• original piece
• part of a series of 50
• 2012

About this series ‘Medical School’:

In Medical School, images and textual extracts from old academic books used by students of medicine were transferred onto scraps of paper and individually framed, and collectively reflect about the way medical knowledge controls and classifies our understanding of birth, life and death. Exhibited in a fake classroom setting created specifically for the exhibition in Germany and Malta, the installation includes three groups of mixed media works: the first refers to medical studies on diseases of newborn babies, the second shows images that were lifted from a manual on public health, while the third makes use of images from a forensic text.

Exhibitions

– 2012 Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta Science in the City 2012
– 2013 Museum Haus Hővener, Brilon, Germany (solo)
– 2012 Installation, Zona Imaginaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Publications

Featured in book ‘Teaching an old dog new tricks’ produced by Raphael Vella