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Medicated is a collection of works by American photographer Richard Kern (1954-). Since the 1980s, Kern has portrayed human desires and impulses through nudes and portraits, drawing on the backdrop of New York underground culture. Drawing on connections to music and film, he has garnered attention for his visual expression, which combines intimacy with precarity. This book compiles a series produced between 2010 and 2018, capturing women taking prescription medication in private spaces such as bathrooms and bedrooms. Against the backdrop of a modern society where drugs are pervasive in everyday life, these photographs, which evoke the gap between addiction and comfort, reality and fantasy, simultaneously evoke tranquility and tension, leaving a profound impression on viewers. This large, linen-bound hardcover volume vividly showcases Kern's recent interests and offers a striking portrait of the contemporary world at the intersection of body and mind, desire and institutions.