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...reduce mortality rates for women in their 40s. But Swedish researchers issued a report last week that concluded the opposite. The study tracked 24,000 Swedish women for 10 years and found that those who had mammograms in their 40s had a 40% lower death rate from breast cancer than women who weren't screened...
...Breast implants have been firmly linked for the first time to multiple sclerosis-like symptoms, including brain and spinal lesions, pain, fatigue and nerve problems...
...medical aspect of the exhibition continues in "Pinnacles of Desire." The artists replace the gurnies with steel metal stands that contain video monitors, and the bags are now silicone breast implants. The emphasis shifts to a more contemporary issue--or rather the latest development of the female body: breast augmentation as the product of commercialized sex. It is no coincidence that the metal apparatus mimics the configuration of a pair of breasts. The stands are large, square and metal, but they convey the symmetry and preposterous nature of surgically enhanced breasts. A montage of porno clips plays on one screen...
Looking through the breast implants has powerful effects. In the porno montage, they unmask the misogyny and artificial sex appeal of breasts. With these bags of silicone, these porno actresses have a commodity value. They remain nameless, but hyper-sexualized. In the case of the breast-feeding film, the bags remind the viewer of the physiological value of breasts that a male-oriented culture has trivialized and reduced to a sexual function. In the light of the recent problems with breast augmentation, LoCurto and Outcault offer the viewer a more natural alternative perspective of the female body...
...last segment of the exhibition, "Lodestones," summarizes the artists' facetious view of breast augmentation. Two ridiculously enormous breasts with noticeably small nipples sit on a slightly elevated platform. They are unevenly shaped to exaggerate the hideous imperfection of breast augmentation. The audience visualizes a reclining woman, as the breasts lie on a bed-like platform. The artists reduce the woman to the sexual organs; her breasts now signify and define female sexuality. The issue at hand slaps the audience in the face--the Playboy cartoon of the man in the museum is put into practice. The viewer, like...