In this work Izabela Jurcewicz deals with traumatic memories written in the body on a cellular level. She was an inter-organ tumor patient, one of 300 cases worldwide, where science had few answers to the cause and how to proceed.

This experience of a patient being ‘on view’, researched and scanned, coined her relationship with the camera and ways of seeing a human. These medical experiences, especially surgeries, live as a photographic negative in her body and life, which henceforth produce images, including the ones that form this book. In the act of return, Izabela replaces the invasive surgical instrument with her camera as a receptive device to register, merge and enable a ritual of healing.

To synchronize the level of knowledge in her body and mind, she reperforms the trauma under her conditions and rewrites her memories, aiming to change them at a cellular level. At the same time this work gives her perspective to see and support her father, who at that time is going through intensive cancer treatment. The project highlights the process of emphatic engagement that brings dimensionality to the body and self again and grows a capacity to join with the suffering of others.

Released November 2022

Photographs and text by Izabela Jurcewicz
Design by Cara Buzzell

Softcover, 10.5 x 8.5 inches
96 pages
Edition of 300

ISBN: 978-1-949608-29-8
Trade Edition: $40.00

The first 80 books sold come with a 3x4 inch signed photograph of Isolated. Alientated & On View (see pink goldfish image to the left), printed on Canson Infinity Baryta Photographique 310 fine art, archival paper.