ART OPENING: Joanna Rajkowska PAINKILLERS “Modern warfare, healing systems and the practices of Western science”
16 September 2015 • Mark Westall
At the centre of these troubling relationships is a new series produced especially for the exhibition. Painkillers II (2015) continues Rajkowska’s on-going interest in the paradoxical interrelation of military weapons and pharmaceuticals, whereby the artist makes casts from modern weapons and ‘weaponised’ objects out of resin and powdered analgesics.