Medical Imaging and Art Meet in the Exhibition “Overexposed”
The concurrent emergence of cinema and X-ray technology radically transformed how we see and understand the human body.
The Museum of the Moving Image's exhibition "Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body," running until January 2027, melds cinema and X-ray imaging to reveal how these innovations have reshaped our perception of the human body. Curator Sonia Shechet Epstein organized the show, which juxtaposes historical films and contemporary artworks by 16 artists to explore the societal and political ramifications of viewing beneath the skin.
The exhibition includes films such as Louis and Auguste Lumière’s Le Squelette Joyeux (1897) and Zuza Banasińska’s Grandmamauntsistercat (2024), alongside works by Panteha Abareshi, Peggy Ahwesh, and Véréna Paravel, among others. Accompanying events include discussions on the Visible Human Project and screenings of Richard Fleischer’s Fantastic Voyage, David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers and The Brood.
The exhibition catalog, co-edited by Epstein and curator Elisabeth Sherman, is available at the museum's shop.
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