Patient Denies translates the coded language of a lengthy diagnostic process into the International Code of Signals. Every symptom “denied” by the patient in conversations with doctors, nurses, and technicians is reproduced in a graphic form originally designed “to provide ways and means of communication in situations related essentially to safety....especially when language difficulties arise.”

(International Code of Signals for Visual, Sound, and Radio Communications, United States Edition, 1969 (Revised 2003), p.iii)

Linoleum prints on hospital curtain, Plexiglas light diffuser, pine, cable.

9’ x 4’ x 5’

Exhibited in:

Holding Over
Ortega y Gasset Projects
30 May 2023
Organized by Renana Neuman