Event 2: Fowler Museum

Even though I am a senior at UCLA, I have never been to the Fowler Museum and going through this course has made me appreciate what this museum has to offer. The exhibit Making Strange by Vivan Sundaram consists of twenty-seven wearable garments that are made from recycled materials and medical supplies.

 In Making Strange, Sundaram captures the tension between beauty and illness, pleasure and pain, and life and death with brought me to the relationship between art and medicine that we have discussed in this class. Even though you wouldn’t think that these two things could have a relationship, after seeing this exhibit and the beauty that recycled materials and medical supplies can create have changed my outlook on this. Through the pieces the artists’ are able to bring up to questions about death, illness, and sexuality.

Sundaram’s art reminds me of the MedTech and Art that we discussed in this course. The art that he uses, shows how the recycled objects that we could use in the medical field and instead of using them to cure people, he did the complete opposite and showed the death with these materials.