PAIN 2017
Pain is a group of pieces using empty medicine packages that Paolo Topy recuperated in infirmaries and photographed without changing their shapes. These surprising images show tubes that are folded, crushed and twisted like bodies expressing the suffering and turning-inwards that come with disease; the solitude and distress of coping with pain. This series, in which each subject is shot individually over a neutral backdrop reminiscent of a hospital, powerfully and insightfully expresses human beings’ fragility and tendency to turn inwards when coping with the loss of social ties that comes with disease.
Yves Peltier