"Self-Portrait/Cutting" by ​Catherine Opie

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Trigger Warning - Contains depictions of self-harm which some viewers may find distressing. Viewer discretion advised.

Scratched into Opie’s back is a childlike drawing. Ben Street examines the way in which the artist uses a traditional format to speak of a subject that is anything but.

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