Black Skin, White Bust: Doreen Garner at Halle für Kunst Steiermark

It’s easy to think of illness and disability as simply a failure or lack caused by or located within an individual’s body, rather than a condition that is also often produced systemically and inequitably—whether through a health care system that discourages uninsured people from receiving preventive care or by environmental pollution in low-income communities. Racism and capitalism help produce disability.
Doreen Garner’s huge, haunting sculptures make this last fact unav