Justene Williams, Radium girl - Fan fingernails, 2013-14 from licking women Watch Video
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Description: Justene WilliamsnRadium girl - Fan fingernails, 2013-14nCommissioned by Artbank for the series 'Performutations' curated by Daniel Mudie Cunninghamnn'Radium girl – fan fingernails' is based in part on the historical account of female factory workers in Orange, New Jersey who contracted radiation poisoning around 1917 from painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark paint that they were led to believe was harmless. After the paint was ingested from licking the paintbrushes to keep a fine point,
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