Mood Disorder

David Horvitz

2012–22

An inkjet print photograph of a clinical webpage about bipolar disorder that turns an ephemeral online health resource into a physical object to prompt reflection on how medical language and interfaces shape our experience of mental illness.

You immediately notice the browser window and its beige, columned layout—dense Spanish text, small green headings, sidebar links and a visible scrollbar—whose tidy, administrative look makes the content feel both bureaucratic and intimately charged.

By enlarging a transient webpage into a photographic print, Horvitz links internet culture to the history of conceptual photography, making visible how digital interfaces and clinical vocabularies mediate, classify, and circulate understandings of mood and illness.

Palette

Exhibitions

The Paintings of Morris Hirshfield

1943

The Prints of Masuo Ikeda

1965

Photographs by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson

1941

Narrative Prints

1976