Bonnie Portelance is a canadian/american multidisciplinary artist practicing mainly in photography and textiles. She has been incapacitated from practicing art over the last 15 years due to multiple medical conditions. 2024 marks her return to creating and exhibiting her art. This work captures the transformative quality of an X-ray in our memories.
Within an X-ray, lies a paradox of the human condition: the unrelenting exposure of physical frailty against the raw emotions and psychological tenacity that the X-rays induce but can never tangibly reveal. By recording the condition of one’s physical being with precision, the films expose solely corporal issues, which the mind must then contemplate and reconcile, revealing the peripheral relationship of the physical self to the emotional self. Coupling the photographic concern for light with the X-ray’s revelation of the body’s condition through light, this series utilizes the ephemeral nature of the X-ray to explore the ethereal nature of its imagery.
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Anguish
Sepia-toned Silver Print
20” x 24”
$500.00
Metamorphosis
Sepia-toned Silver Print
24” x 28”
$500.00