“Folk Medic”
FOLK MEDIC II stands as an extension of the collective’s 2018 exhibition at Subliminal Projects, rooted in healing and friendship. FOLK MEDIC II manifests once again, out of a time of historic upheaval, with focus on remedy, community action, and family.
Coordinated in tandem with FOLK MEDIC II, PANACEA is a group exhibition on care, extending from the ethos of FOLK MEDIC’s work. Panacea asks how medicine is an alchemic act of communal practice and how a physical site might become a salve. Medicine here is harbored in artworks of light, sound, landscape, hue, fibers, flora, and proclamation. PANACEA shifts the reduction of care from its institutionalized and privatized positioning and throttles it towards a cosmology of attributes, attitudes, and generative impulses of the collective. In this form, care provides glimpses of family archives, assemblage objects, ephemera, amalgamative forms, corporeal geographies, and the marks of our Anthropocene. The earliest moments of FOLK MEDIC II were grounded in the question: what was your medicine? Panacea answers in myriad ways, extending outwards and back towards a collectivist approach.
Press release and images via Subliminal Projects, LA.
