Image Series from The Dept. of the Stolen Corporeal, 2019-present, archival pigment prints of digitally manipulated photographs.

Artist
Madison Nunes

Project Title
The Department of the Stolen Corporeal

Grant Amount
$2,000

Website
www.madisonnunes.com

The Department of the Stolen Corporeal is a multimedia project that reinterprets the historical exploitation inherent in American medicine, focusing on the practice of body theft from public burial grounds and the medical field's use of disadvantaged bodies in illicit cadaver research. It employs lens-based work, soundscapes, installations, and audience participation to create a living archive connecting past abuses and contemporary medical malpractice. Nunes, who can speak to the lived experiences of gender and neurodivergence,  will be utilizing the support of Idea Capital to bring in artists and academics from other impacted communities for equal collaboration, input, and advisement as the project grows into its final form, a site-specific installation.

 Doctors, archival pigment print from digitally manipulated photograph, 2019.

Two Bodies, archival pigment print from digitally manipulated photograph, 2019.

Madison Nunes, The House Our Bodies Built, digital negative, 2022.