When entering the gallery, you’ll get spooked at first glance. That’s because you have encountered the gallery ghost, artist Amy Zucker’s Networking, who hovers and waits for incoming guests at the edge of the foyer. A rusty wire dress form wears a hospital gown clipped and bound by medical scissors, and has an abundance of gas masks and tubes as its tentacles. In essence, it‘s a nightmarish multimedia piece which challenges and references the notions of hospitals and insane asylums.
We are naturally wary hospitals, avoiding them at all costs- why else would there be so many horror flicks set in them? Perhaps Networking is a physical stereotype of our views on hospitals. The art is psychologically mind-bending, heavily evoking pessimism and even questions the justification of outrages about healthcare. Perhaps it is an attribution to the insanity of healthcare itself in this day and age.
By Alana Voldman
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