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Transplant

What sounds at first like rain on a tin roof turns out to be the ticking of a mechanical heart. Disarming revelations abound in Transplant, an installation by sound artist John Wynne and photographer Tim Wainwright. The result of a year-long residency at Harefield hospital, Middlesex, it is a piece about the twilit world of anticipation and dread that is the cardiothoracic transplantation unit. Here, patients wait in isolation for donor organs, often for months, their survival predicated on the sudden death of a stranger. Both dignified and brutal, Transplant evokes the melancholy and trauma that underpin this uncanny transaction.

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