Our Positive Bodies: Mapping Our Treatment, Sharing Our Choices
Saturday, June 12 to December 11
Created in Nairobi, Kenya, by the Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health in 2004, this exhibition explores "body mapping," a technique devised to help HIV-positive women cope with the fact that they were likely to die prematurely and leave their children behind. In body mapping, life-size silhouette self-portraits express the feelings, memories, treatment and identities of those likely to die of AIDS. These powerful portraits and the celebratory process used to paint them allow HIV-positive people to explore both their own options and ways that other people influence their ability to stay hea


