The Current Season 26/FA-HAD-472-02
The Museum of Moving Image, Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body
by Lucy Jang
Image from : MOMI, instagram page
The Overexposed exhibition explores the connection between medical technology and the ways human bodies are seen and understood. Through developments such as X-rays and MRI scans, we are able to see parts of the body that cannot normally be observed by the human eye. However, throughout the exhibition, I began to question whether seeing more doesn't always mean understanding more. I felt curious looking at these normally hidden parts of the body, but at the same time, looking so deeply into someone felt strangely invasive, almost as if I were entering something private.
This is shown in Agnes Questionmark Opera Medica (2025), a three channel video installation that surrounds the viewer with detailed footage of a medical procedure and the artist’s personal experience of gender-affirming surgery. The work made me think about who has control over the body when it is being examined or undergoing a medical procedure. Similarly, Barbara Hammer’s Sanctus (1990) uses X-ray footage to reveal the body from the inside, transforming medical images into something we observe outside of their original medical purpose. Both works show how technology can make the invisible body visible, while also raising questions about privacy and exposure. They made me wonder whether such detailed inspection allows us to understand the body more deeply or instead turns something personal and private into something exposed and observable.
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