Stephanie Barakat
@s.barakat6
Stephanie Barakat is an Australian artist working on Guringai country who is focused on integrating art with the fields of science and mathematics through her multidisciplinary work. Her interest in politics, and her fascination with medicine leads her works to centre around medical misogyny, especially the cultural abjection to women's organs. She places herself within the long collaborative history of painting and medicine whilst trying to liberate the fields from their patriarchal foundations.
Repulsion is cultural and disgust is taught to us so you understand what about yourself is shameful and should be hidden. Women, lgbt+, people of colour and disabled people are especially taught their bodies are abject, leading to disproportionately worse physical and mental health in these communities. Through researching feminism and medical photography, especially laparoscopic surgery, she continually discovers beauty inside of the body. She stitches and abstracts medical imagery through her personal lens of awe and fascination, desiring that through her perspective the grotesqueness she is ignorant of dissolves from others' vision.
View the work: Building 24 Level 1, Ground Floor Gallery
