Vilma Bader

The installation is a critique on the model of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). In the Red has no ‘text’, that is, it has no definitions and as such they become labels. Language is intimately tied up with issues of possession and power. In the Red also alludes to Iatrogenic poverty, a term used to describe impoverishment induced by medical care. While the handwritten list conveys an existential energy, human feeling and emotion; the relentless list of labels culminates in a disturbing symbol of psychic instability.