2025 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize

Chemo Decay: Sun Ritual

Tamara Voninski

Chemo Decay: Sun Ritual, 2025 photographic lightbox 42 x 59.4 x 10 cm

I exposed images from my chemotherapy induced dreams to the same chemo cancer drugs that drip into my veins during treatment. The chemo serendipitously transforms the photographic material in a Petri dish over weeks. Chemotherapy alters everything in our body and rearranges DNA. This metamorphosis killing cancer and our healthy cells is symbolised in the alteration of a spiritual meditation in a forest faraway.