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Work

My work exists at the intersection of medicine, migration, and the human experience of transformation. As both a visual artist and a pediatric physician caring for children with complex gastrointestinal diseases, I spend much of my life in spaces where vulnerability, uncertainty, resilience, and hope coexist. These experiences form the foundation of my artistic practice.

Statement

My practice explores the profound ways that illness and migration alter identity, relationships, and our understanding of the future. As a practicing physician who immigrated from Mexico City to the United States, I operate at the intersection of these two transformative experiences. Both involve crossing boundaries, adapting to unfamiliar realities, and navigating new identities. Through my work, I seek to make visible the deep emotional landscapes that accompany healing, adaptation, and displacement.
 

Working across mixed media, sculpture, and installation, I combine organic forms, scientific references, and found materials to reflect states of impermanence and change. My work lives in the tension between clinical observation and lived experience—between biological facts and emotional truths—creating spaces where these worlds can coexist.
 

Ultimately, I view art as an act of inquiry rather than explanation. By bridging the languages of art, medicine, and migration, I investigate how we carry vulnerability and memory within our bodies. My goal is to create work that invites reflection on our shared fragility, as well as our remarkable capacity for resilience, empathy, and survival.

Jaime Belkind-Gerson All Rights Reserved 2021 

Contemporary Art / Art Portfolio / Art and Medicine

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