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Clinical Logs of Institutional Removal
Treated examines historical patient case books from the Essex Lunatic Asylum, refusing to treat them as personal narratives. Instead, it exposes these archives as a bureaucratic machinery designed to process human beings.
Across 339 compiled images, each page captures a fractured life—handwritten symptoms, behavior notes, and daily observations. Yet, these personal details are deliberately trapped inside a rigid, repeating system. By gathering these documents into a massive, relentless sequence, the focus shifts away from individual tragedies toward the underlying engine of the institution. This is the blueprint of clinical removal: a process where people are documented, classified, and systematically erased from society.
While grounded in the 19th century, Treated mirrors our present reality. It tracks the ongoing persistence of systems—then analog, now digital—that force human existence into structured, readable codes.
Every life is put on display, yet none of them can ever be recovered.
