eprintid: 10202568
rev_number: 12
eprint_status: archive
userid: 699
dir: disk0/10/20/25/68
datestamp: 2024-12-20 15:25:25
lastmod: 2024-12-20 15:25:25
status_changed: 2024-12-20 15:25:25
type: exhibition
metadata_visibility: show
sword_depositor: 699
creators_name: Padfield, Deborah
title: Inside the Metaphor Series
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C01
divisions: F12
keywords: Photography, Pain, Visual Arts, Metaphor, Meaning, Magnification
note: Exhibiting three photographs as part of the Foto Biennale (8th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography) in Barcelona, 2025
abstract: The film takes a series of connected microscopes as its blue-print, examining pain from multiple perspectives including interviews with international experts from history, linguistics, pain, medicine, neurobiology and psychology (respectively Prof Joanna Bourke, Prof Elena Semino, Prof Joanna Zakrzewska, Prof Maria Fitzgerald and Dr Amanda Williams) interspersed with patient testimonies (Chandrakant Khoda) and a musical and visual score (Lucie Treacher). The visual imagery derives largely from metaphors co-created with pain patients, in particular, that of a shadow sandwich, where the material of the metaphor, for example mouldy bread from the sandwich, is placed under the microscope and subsequently re-integrated with more recognisable imagery to create a multi-layered and surreal backdrop to the unfolding exploration of pain. Scientific and neuronal images weave their way throughout the more abstract imagery asking ‘what is this thing called pain?’ The film provides no answers but invites viewers to assemble their own out of the immediacy of patient testimonies and the cutting edge science and research presented.

The film grew out of the pain: speaking the threshold interdisciplinary project at University College London, click here.

A pilot film was tested on audiences at the Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong in 2016, at the Encountering Pain Conference UCL, London and other public events and conferences in London in 2016.
The premiere of the final cut was screened at the Association for Medical Humanities conference in Sofia Bulgaria with a newly commissioned score by Lucie Treacher in 2018. It has since been shown across London including at the Royal Society of Medicine, at conferences and to medical students.
date: 2025-04-03
official_url: https://www.fotonostrum.com/
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2343936
medium: Photography - digital archival prints
exhibition_type: Group
lyricists_name: Padfield, Deborah
lyricists_id: DGPAD35
actors_name: Padfield, Deborah
actors_id: DGPAD35
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
event_title: Barcelona Foto Biennale (8th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography)
event_location: Barcelona, Spain
event_dates: 03 - 13 April 2025
num_pieces: 3
citation:        Padfield, Deborah;      (2025)    Inside the Metaphor Series.            [Group exhibition].       Barcelona, Spain.  03 - 13 April 2025.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10202568/1/Inside%20metaphor%203%20copy.jpeg
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10202568/2/Inside%20the%20metaphor%2019%20copy.jpeg
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10202568/3/Inside%20the%20metaphor%2016%20copy.jpeg