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“Patient Zero” originally comes from epidemiology, referring to the first identified infected individual in an outbreak—the “starting point” that people later attempt to trace. In reality, however, such a point often does not exist. Disease never truly begins with a single person; it has already been accumulating much earlier, within environments, relationships, and social structures. Any one individual merely happens to be the first in whom symptoms become visible.
This exhibition, Patient Zero, begins from precisely this premise. It does not attempt to identify “the first person who fell ill,” but instead uses the concept to pose another question: when a form of social pressure accumulates over time, where do the first cracks in the psyche appear?
If epidemiology studies how viruses spread between bodies, this exhibition turns to a more elusive form of transmission: how fear, repression, historical trauma, power relations, and those responsibilities and obligations taken for granted…
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“Patient Zero” originally comes from epidemiology, referring to the first identified infected individual in an outbreak—the “starting point” that people later attempt to trace. In reality, however, such a point often does not exist. Disease never truly begins with a single person; it has already been accumulating much earlier, within environments, relationships, and social structures. Any one individual merely happens to be the first in whom symptoms become visible.
This exhibition, Patient Zero, begins from precisely this premise. It does not attempt to identify “the first person who fell ill,” but instead uses the concept to pose another question: when a form of social pressure accumulates over time, where do the first cracks in the psyche appear?
If epidemiology studies how viruses spread between bodies, this exhibition turns to a more elusive form of transmission: how fear, repression, historical trauma, power relations, and those responsibilities and obligations taken for granted…
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Curator
More Exhibitions at SPURS Gallery
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