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3rd December 2024

As Dr Charlie Lee-Potter writes of her RCA installation, "milk is the unifying material in the works: laser-etched and used as paper; desiccated and layered as bed linen; and poured into bottles to expose the punitive methods once used to control women by the medical profession". This is A Week's Supply, with 42 pints of milk, the weekly dose force-fed to "clever women judged to be over-stimulated by thinking too much", a treatment devised by Silas Weir Mitchell whose grotesque instructions, described in his 1877 book, are laser-etched on the cabinet's doors.

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