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IIn the mid-1800s in Britain, a system was developed for diagnosing
mental patients by analyzing their photographs; Frames is based on
these photographs. Behind suspended frames are touch panels on which
visitors attempt to transform an actor into one of the mental patients
depicted in the photographs. As the viewers become the doctors and
photographers of 150 years ago, they are led to question the ideologies
of disease. At the same time, visitors are forced to confront their
own unconscious tendencies to confine others into prefixed "frames."
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