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Illness begins with “I” – Jac Saorsa (Exhibition, The Broadway Drawing School Gallery, Cardiff, until 2 Nov 2014)

posted on March 7, 2025

Exhibition Summary: Illness begins with “I”

Category: Contemporary Art Exhibition
Venue & Dates: The Broadway Drawing School Gallery, Cardiff; 24 October – 2 November 2014
Curatorial Focus: Visual documentation of subjective illness experience through creative witness and portraiture of dis-ease
Thematic Scope: Explores chronic and acute illness across physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions; emphasizes individual voice and uniquely personal experience
Artist/Creator: Jac Saorsa
Core Concept: Reinstates the voice of individuals navigating illness as existential and embodied experience, allied irrevocably to Self
Artistic Method: The ‘art of witness'—creative act of visualizing levels of discomfort that transcend conventional categorical boundaries

Illness begins with “I”
Jac Saorsa
The Broadway Drawing school Gallery, Cardiff
24th Oct. – 2nd Nov. 2014

Illness begins with “I” is about visualising the experience of illness through a creative act of witness – the ‘art of witness’. These are ‘portraits’ of the individual experience of levels of ‘dis-ease’ that can become so much a part of being itself that the discomfort is rarely contained within physical, mental or even spiritual boundaries. The experience can be chronic or acute, it can traverse a scale from devastation to mild irritation, but most importantly it is uniquely subjective, allied irrevocably to Self. This exhibition seeks to reinstate the voice of the individual caught between Kingdoms. Illness begins with ‘I’.

 

 

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