Chloë Hugo-Hamman is an artist and teacher who lives and works in Cape Town. She works across drawing, textiles, and sculpture. Her practice explores how systems of classification within mental health shape understandings of the body through textiles and clothing. Working with soft materials and fabric scraps, she creates tactile works that sit between garment, object, and body.
Through slow, repetitive processes of hand-stitching, layering, mending, and stuffing she investigates ideas of vulnerability, protection, discomfort, and transformation, considering the relationship between internal psychological experience and the social structures that influence it.
She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Cape Town, a Master of Fine Art from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Cape Town.
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Plugged in 2016
I spent the night at an Akeso Psychiatric Clinic so that I could have an EEG and MRI scan. I had the scans because I started seeing a new psychiatrist who after one consultation thought I might have Epilepsy and therefore sent me for the tests. She never checked on me during my stay nor prepared me for the invasive nature of the tests. I had no idea how terrifying an MRI scan of your head would be. It's loud, your head is in a cage and you can't move..all pretty important things to mention to anyone let alone someone with chronic anxiety. Malpractice much?!... and that's the tip of the medical industrial complex iceberg. Her secretary was rude and unhelpful. Turns out I don't have epilepsy. I didn't see her again.
