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Megan Bent: Patient / Belongings
Exhibition Guide

Megan Bent: Patient / Belongings: Exhibition Guide

  • Director's Note, Jordan Eddy

    Director's Note

    Jordan Eddy

    The Covid-19 pandemic was the impetus for this exhibition—and an impediment to its creation. To produce the ongoing series in Patient / Belongings, Megan Bent has wrestled with lockdowns and isolation, insomnia and fearful distraction, supply chain issues and rising material costs. She has processed the broad social and cultural phenomena of this era with a rage that often feels all-consuming. Sometimes that anger feeds her creativity; in other moments it plunges her into despair.

     
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  • Artist Statement, Megan Bent

    Artist Statement

    Megan Bent

    In March of 2020, my fear of catching the Coronavirus became palpable. "Don't worry." an acquaintance assured me "only the sick and elderly will die." I am chronically ill and immunocompromised. 

     

    I Don't Want To Paint A Silver Lining Around It, the series that appears in this exhibition, is my personal reflection of being high risk in the pandemic. It is also my response to the outside world's demand that disabled people be acceptable losses for personal convenience or for corporate profit.

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  • The Process

    The Process

    The chlorophyll printing process (where one print/exposure may take anywhere from 8 to 72 hours) relies on flexibility, interdependence with nature, and echoes my experience of the disability concept of Crip Time*; living in a body/mind that values slowing down, connection, and care over speed and production.
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  • Installation Views
    Installation view of Megan Bent's exhibition at Form & Concept Gallery (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view of Megan Bent's exhibition at Form & Concept Gallery (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view of Megan Bent's exhibition at Form & Concept Gallery (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

  • Artworks
    • A brown decaying flowering dogwood leaf on a black background. The withered leaf has many holes in it and is embossed with the text “Covid Winter.”
      Megan Bent, Covid Winter, 2021
      $ 1,000.00
    • A brown decaying flowering dogwood leaf on a black background. The withered leaf has many holes in it and is embossed with the text “Covid Winter.”
      Megan Bent, Covid Winter, 2021
    • A teardrop-shaped hosta leaf on a black background. Printed in the chlorophyll is a self-portrait while wearing a face mask. My face takes up the whole leaf and only one eye is visible through overgrown sweeping hair. The face mask is decorated with a vine and leaf pattern.
      Megan Bent, Quarantine Day 121, 2020
      $ 1,000.00
    • A teardrop-shaped hosta leaf on a black background. Printed in the chlorophyll is a self-portrait while wearing a face mask. My face takes up the whole leaf and only one eye is visible through overgrown sweeping hair. The face mask is decorated with a vine and leaf pattern.
      Megan Bent, Quarantine Day 121, 2020
    • A hosta leaf on a black background. The top of the leaf is tattered and full of holes. Printed in the chlorophyll is a curb with a sign “Election Ballot Box” and an arrow pointing to the left.
      Megan Bent, Quarantine Day 213 (#CripTheVote), 2020/2021
      $ 1,000.00
    • A hosta leaf on a black background. The top of the leaf is tattered and full of holes. Printed in the chlorophyll is a curb with a sign “Election Ballot Box” and an arrow pointing to the left.
      Megan Bent, Quarantine Day 213 (#CripTheVote), 2020/2021
    • Two calla lily leaves are placed horizontally on a black background. On each leaf, printed in the chlorophyll, is a cascading series of my shadow as I walk.
      Megan Bent, Quarantine Day 450, 2021
    • Two calla lily leaves are placed horizontally on a black background. On each leaf, printed in the chlorophyll, is a cascading series of my shadow as I walk.
      Megan Bent, Quarantine Day 450, 2021
    • An oval-shaped hosta leaf on a black background. Printed into the chlorophyll is a building's facade and a sign that reads "Shots Available. Ask RX." The leaf has many holes in it and in the negative space of the sky is a bird flying past the sign.
      Megan Bent, Quarantine Day 496, 2021
      $ 1,000.00
    • An oval-shaped hosta leaf on a black background. Printed into the chlorophyll is a building's facade and a sign that reads "Shots Available. Ask RX." The leaf has many holes in it and in the negative space of the sky is a bird flying past the sign.
      Megan Bent, Quarantine Day 496, 2021
    • A round hosta leaf. Printed in the chlorophyll is my shadow reflected in a swimming pool. Surrounding my shadows are wavy patterns of refracted light in the water.
      Megan Bent, Quarantine Day 527, 2022
      $ 1,000.00
    • Megan Bent, Quarantine Day 527, 2022
      Megan Bent, Quarantine Day 527, 2022
    • A self-portrait where half my face and body are in shadow and half my face, body and one arm are illuminated by light. I am looking at the viewer and on my arm are flowers tattoos and a Band-Aid from my Covid booster shot that says “Flu Fighter."
      Megan Bent, Quarantine Day 580 (Booster Shot), 2022
      $ 1,000.00
    • A self-portrait where half my face and body are in shadow and half my face, body and one arm are illuminated by light. I am looking at the viewer and on my arm are flowers tattoos and a Band-Aid from my Covid booster shot that says “Flu Fighter."
      Megan Bent, Quarantine Day 580 (Booster Shot), 2022
    • An oval-shaped hosta leaf on a black background. Printed in the chlorophyll is a door of a local CVS with a handwritten cursive sign “We’re Out of Tests!!!”
      Megan Bent, Quarantine Day 661, 2022
      $ 1,000.00
    • An oval-shaped hosta leaf on a black background. Printed in the chlorophyll is a door of a local CVS with a handwritten cursive sign “We’re Out of Tests!!!”
      Megan Bent, Quarantine Day 661, 2022
    • A round brown hydrangea leaf on a black background. Printed in the light umber chlorophyll is a self-portrait where half my face is lit by the sun and my head and eyes are tilted upward.
      Megan Bent, Quarantine Day 7, 2020
      $ 1,000.00
    • A round brown hydrangea leaf on a black background. Printed in the light umber chlorophyll is a self-portrait where half my face is lit by the sun and my head and eyes are tilted upward.
      Megan Bent, Quarantine Day 7, 2020
    • A heart-shaped hosta leaf on a black background. Printed in the chlorophyll is an empty hospital bed, lit by the natural light of a nearby window.
      Megan Bent, Untitled (180,000 Lost and Counting) August 26, 2020, 2020
      $ 1,000.00
    • A heart-shaped hosta leaf on a black background. Printed in the chlorophyll is an empty hospital bed, lit by the natural light of a nearby window.
      Megan Bent, Untitled (180,000 Lost and Counting) August 26, 2020, 2020
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  • About the Artist

    About the Artist

    Megan Bent is a lens-based artist interested in the malleability of photography and the ways image-making can happen beyond using a traditional camera. This interest started to occur after the diagnosis of a progressive chronic illness. Drawn to image-making processes that reject perfection, accuracy, or any certainty in results, she is interested instead in processes that reflect and embrace her disabled experience; especially interdependence, impermanence, care, and slowness.
     
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  • Further Reading

    • Abled-Bodied Leftists Cannot Abandon Disabled Solidarity to “Move On” From COVID, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Truthout, October 1, 2022
    • Disabled Oracles and the Coronavirus, Alice Wong, Disability Visibility, 2020
    • I’m disabled and need a ventilator to live. Am I expendable during this pandemic?, Alice Wong, Vox, 2020
    • Coronavirus: How These Disabled Activists Are Taking Matters Into Their Own (Sanitized) Hands, Matthew Green for KQED, 2020
    •  Death by a Thousand Words: COVID-19 and the Pandemic of Ableist Media, Imani Barbarin, Refinery 29
    •  What It’s Like to Be Black and Disabled in America, Shalene Gupta, The Atlantic
    • Sick Woman Theory, Johanna Hedva
    • Access Intimacy: The Missing Link, Mia Mingus
    • 10 Principles of Disability Justice, Sins Invalid
    • RX/27 - Spastic Walking, RX Museum Art & Reflection in Medicine
 

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