R Block is a series of large color photographic prints based on a collection of indexed medical portraits from an abandoned medical archive in Brooklyn, New York.

Subjects pose in their Sunday best for formal pathological mug shots in an obscured history of occasions when disrupted lives, through injury and illness, were presented as special cases for medical scrutiny and text book collection.

The portraits enter a "shadow archive" and float somewhere in the space between the objective and the aesthetic. Domestic and institutional discourses intersect in anonymous portraits of 'dark celebrity'.

Through a process of reworking with signs, symbols, stains and burnings, the images explore an ambiguous truth, a suggestion of untold narratives and identities.

25 C-prints. Various dimensions of 6 x 4 ft (183 x 122 cm) & 24 x 20 in (61 x 51cm).
Archive Series. 8 Light boxes.24 x 20 in (61 x 51cm). Editions of 2.
Collection of the artist & Nikolai Fine Art, New York.

R Block series. Chromogenic hand prints. Various dimensions: 6 x 4 ft (183x122 cm) & 24 x 20 in (61x51cm) Collection of the artist, Morris Collection & Nikolai Fine Art, New York

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