An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

Skopje, press to exit project space, 2009

The exhibition aims at criticizing the anomaly of the public healthcare that may be the most serious problem of the country (unlike the other areas of the social life, the healthcare can not allow the improvisation – since every improvisation equals fatality (loss of life).Beside the fact I had more that once experienced those problems, that is why I was provoked to threat this issue. The exhibition is conceived as a three dimensional video installation consisting of the following: a dirty hospital glass locker containing the Hippocratic oath displayed in low light (this is obviously the nearly homophone to the word "hypocritical", pointing out the discrepancy between the Hippocratic oath and the disregard of the medical ethics); a panel with attached clips from the newspapers (stockpiled during these past three years) illustrating the everyday blunderings in the public healthcare (bribery, corruption, wrong diagnosis, bad hygienic conditions, irresponsibility, and as a consequence, the fatality); the video screening of clips taken from the local TV stations news, and representing bizarre accounts from the public health sector. All this dire feeling is partly subdued by the reproduction of the famous painting of Magritte, Le Fils de l’homme upon which stands inscribed the above mentioned title:
An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
This, actually, is an old English proverb which is not only a humorous remark about the interdependence of food and health, but also a ground for concluding that this may well be one of the possible solutions in avoiding the medical horror institutions an the “men in white”.