Medical Imaging and Art Meet in the Exhibition “Overexposed”
Overexposed, a major group exhibition at Museum of the Moving Image (October 2026–January 2027), examines the intersection of cinema, X-ray technology, and bodily representation. Curated by Sonia Shechet Epstein, the show features 16 artists including Ana Mendieta, Barbara Hammer, David Cronenberg (via screenings), and contemporary practitioners Zuza Banasińska and Véréna Paravel, tracing how late 19th-century innovations in motion capture and radiography transformed visual culture and scientific understanding of the human form. The exhibition explores themes of vision, power, identity, and the social consequences of technologies enabling internal bodily visibility. Accompanying programming includes talks on the Visible Human Project and screenings of Fantastic Voyage and Dead Ringers, contextualizing historical and contemporary artistic engagements with medical imaging as a lens for examining knowledge, surveillance, and embodiment.
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