Spanish Society of Neurology Collection
Inflammatory Abysses
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Date: 2026
Collection: Spanish Society of Neurology Collection
Image type/ Technique: Painting and collage
Subject Corporate Name: Author: Claire Frémy
Subject Geographic: University of Bordeaux, France
Notes: Painting and collage portraying a woman struck by Guillain-Barre syndrome. Her body feels unbearably heavy, as though she were sinking into the depths of the ocean-drawn downward to the point where breathing itself becomes impossible. This sensation of submersion evokes the progressive paralysis that overwhelms her, muscle by muscle. Her figure is constructed from anatomopathological cross-sections revealing the inflammatory processes that attack her peripheral nerves (images borrowed from Professor Berciano, with his permission). These fragmented slices shape her form, exposing the invisible damage within. Her dress is composed of ENMG tracings that document demyelination: conduction blocks, slowed velocities, prolonged distal latencies, and neurogenic patterns. These signals become both fabric and testimony of what is happening to her.
