Patty Chang
  born 1972 in San Diego, USA, lives and works in New York

In her performances, video and photography works, Patty Chang records pictures of illness and the body that bear female connotations, distorts or exaggerates them into the grotesque. The video performance "Melons (At a Loss)" of 1998 has a particularly disturbing effect - literally gut-wrenching: the artist scoops out a sugar melon with great relish, the halves of which - replacing her breasts -