Take two: Prescribing Latinx and medicine as aesthetic form

Take Your Medicine is an artist speculation and an ongoing studio investigation into the ways that cultural stereotypes and popular representations of Latino/a culture are prioritized, distorted, “unthoughtfully” prescribed, consumed, reproduced, and re-circulated through a Latinx body. Using medicine and health as art formats, Rene Galvan compounds visual research and the encounter of information into pills. And if medicine constructs the objects that it treats, then it is through medicine that one may see the diagnosis and prognosis for Latinx. Galvan, working from that logic, hypothesizes on the various effects the fabricated, cultural info-medication may have in shaping and reflecting emergent Latinx subjectivities and aesthetics.