My Days of Losing Words
Rachael Jablo
Kehrer Verlag
English
Hardcover
96 pages
240 x 220 mm
2013
ISBN 9783868284027
“I have had chronic migraine since June 2008. Without medication, the pain makes me lose the ability to speak; with medication, I have side effects that cause me to forget words. For My Days of Losing Words, I created color photographs that act as synthetic memories of my lost words and this time of being inarticulate and in pain. The one-word titles refer to words that got lost in a netherworld between pain and sanity. The self-portraits remain (inarticulately) untitled. I never stop shooting. I carry a list of words that I’ve lost over time, and when to see something I did jogs my memory of a word, I shoot it and cross off the word I was stuck in between my house and medical spaces for months on end, so I started shooting words there.”
About the Artist
Rachael Jablo is a chronically ill, Jewish, queer, Berlin-based American artist and educator who works with storytelling, photography, installation, and collage in analog and digital processes to discuss issues around illness, the body, grief, and gender. Her work has been seen recently in a solo exhibitions at Graz’s Forum Stadtpark, and USC’s Hoyt Gallery, and in group exhibitions at the Women’s History Museum in Stockholm, Torrance Museum in LA, and at the Bakery Art Gallery in Bordeaux. She has been featured in Ever-Emerging Magazine, on WNYC’s The Takeaway, and Slate, and is an active member of the EndoViolence Collective. She published her photographic monograph about chronic migraine, My days of losing words, with Kehrer Verlag in 2013. Her recent work, The Hysteria Project, received a Neustart Kultur Grant for Innovative Arts from the German Government in 2021-2022. She is part of the EU-wide #ENDOs art and narrative medicine project running through 2025. She was the keynote speaker at the Endometriosis (R)Evolution narrative medicine conference at the University of Graz, Austria in May.
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(source: https://www.rjablo.com/bio)
About the Publisher
Kehrer Verlag is among the world’s leading publishers of photo books. Founded in 1995 by Klaus Kehrer, it is also one of the few independent publishing houses in Germany. In addition to photography, further focal points include contemporary art, art of the 17th through the 20th centuries, and international sound art.
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