Hospitality
multidisciplinary project
Year:
It is important to feel at home, wherever you are
2021 - 2026
In the TB ward, where I was treated, people were starting relationships with each other, or even with medical personnel, forming friendships, escaping through holes in fences to walk in the park or get drinks in the shopping mall. Intrigues and romances in the wards, laughters mixed with despair and loneliness, always on the edge of conflicting feelings. The hospital became a parallel world, a mini-society governed by its own rules.
Hospitality translates these lived experiences into a spatial and material practice. By reimagining hospital interiors and domesticating medical equipment, the project constructs a universe on the boundary between the unnerving and the familiar, where drop counters become personalities or plants grow from test tube racks. Medical objects lose their authority and become intimate and human.
The exhibition aims to serve as a platform for reflection and dialogue for the affected community, their relatives, medical workers, as well as decision-makers. The goal of the project is to find sustainable and comprehensive ways to de-stigmatize our society, and to inspire new trauma-coping strategies.
This project is dedicated to everyone around the world who is fighting tuberculosis and facing its stigma.
Huge thanks to supporters and partners of the project, who helped with the research and production phase:
TB People Global, AFK, WE Jansen Fonds, Stop TB Partnership, Humana People to People Foundation, KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, MinXray
22.02 - 24.03 Bradwolff Projects
Oetewalerstraat 73, 1093 MD Amsterdam
Curator: Natalia Sudova
Breathe In
“Breathe In” is a collaborative digital animation* by Paulina Siniatkina and Johannes Hogebrink which is composed of 64 individual X-ray images captured using the MinXray IMPACT Wireless radiography system during a tuberculosis (TB) screening mission in Yola, Nigeria in December 2024. The screening mission was organized by the Janna Health Foundation and supported by TB REACH.
Every X-ray is carefully aligned so, when animated, their lungs merge into a single breathing body with one unifying heartbeat. Individual details like necklaces, pins and buttons remain to reveal how every scan represents a different person with their own unique story and personalities. By merging many lives into a single living image, “Breathe In” becomes a quiet meditation on our collective vulnerability and the universal human right to healthcare.
*Commissioned by MinXray and is part of the project Hospitality