Monika Lin
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Texts
- Shadow Count, installation, ceramics, plexiglass, mixed media, dimensions variable, 2010
- “The Exemplars,” woodcut, 1 of an edition of 20, 24 x 22 cm, 2013
- Hybrid Landscapes, resin and acrylic paint, ink, plaster pill replicas on wood panel, 30 x 40 cm, 2012
- Monika Lin, “Memory Boxes,” found objects, resin, found box, 37 x 11.5 x 10cm, 2014
- On the Way to the Imperial Examination… : Crow No. 2, wire, rice paper, paste and beeswax, dimensions variable, 2012
- Skipping Girls No. 5, plaster replicas of pills, polymer paint (acrylic), epoxy resin and ink on wood panel, 35 x 25 cm, 2010
- Take-Away, rice, resin, masking tape, dimensions variable, 2012
- Take-Away
Exhibitions
- What if Objects Could Talk?March 29th, 2014 - May 26th, 2014
- Learning from the Literati 4
September 14th, 2013 - October 29th, 2013 - Learning from the Literati 3
September 5th, 2012 - October 10th, 2012 - Abstract Expressions
April 14th, 2012 - May 27th, 2012 - Cold Comfort
February 4th, 2012 - March 18th, 2012 - Collective Consciousness August 6th, 2011 - August 30th, 2011
- Refracted Realities
April 9th, 2011 - May 9th, 2011 - Shifting Definitions November 6th, 2010 - December 18th, 2010
Skipping Girls No. 5, plaster replicas of pills, polymer paint (acrylic), epoxy resin and ink on wood panel, 35 x 25 cm, 2010
This series entitled “Double Happines” is in part an investigation into our country’s growing dependence on medication as a means towards psychiatric health. The psycho-pharmaceutical industry has broadened its reach to include treatment of mild disorders through prescription medication without psychological co-treatment nor placing restrictions on usage, thus creating a society in which individuals are medicated for unregulated and indefinite periods of time rather than encouraged to make the necessary adjustments in order to deal with fluctuating stress in their lives. Motivated by financial gain, the pharmaceutical industry has resorted to the same marketing strategies as purveyors of more conventional consumer items.
This marketing is so convincing in promoting the attainment of happiness through medication that the issue of self-diagnosis presents itself in an alarming fashion.
Increasing numbers of individuals deceived by such promotion now view unthreatening signs of discomfort or poor health as symptomatic of medical conditions that may not exist. Coerced and trusting patients demand of their doctors drug treatments based on the perpetuated mis-information, establishing a society of the self-medicated as well as the self-diagnosed.