#4352. Looking after the Filipina caregiver: Ambiguity and unknowability across Jenifer K Woffords Nurse Drawings

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Abstract:
This essay examines Jenifer K Wofford’s Nurse Drawings, a collection of line drawings that center the figure of the Filipina nurse and caregiver. Staging an encounter with Filipina nursing figures that fall and float, sink and rise, wander and idle, Wofford’s Nurse Drawings simultaneously draws upon and upsets flattened and mass-marketed images of Filipina nurse-as-commodity, pushing the figure of the Filipina care worker, in Wofford’s words, “toward something deeper and stranger.” Departing from linear trajectories that conscript the Filipina nurse as inherently inclined to care and built to extend the life-times of others, Wofford invites spectators to sit with and look after the estranged and alienated Filipina nurse and caregiver, and as such, perhaps one who also requires aftercare, one who also falls ill, and one who can never be fully known.
Keywords:
ambiguity; care work; comfort; distance; Filipina; Jenifer K Wofford; nurses; visual art

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