Exam Gown
mixed media installation
2002
dimensions variable

photographs
chromogenic prints mounted on aluminum
60"H x 30"W each

sculpture
machine washable yarn, stainless steel table
36"H x 24"W x 24"D

Exam Gown is a revised gown design that is hand knit out of machine washable yarn. The personal and labor intensive quality of the knitting process evokes ideas of a more personal and less disposable institutional environment; images of a patient knitting one’s own gown during an extended stay in a hospital or perhaps the hospital staff themselves caring so much about their patients that they knit such gowns.

special thanks to Heike Liss