[3][4] She is best known for her work "Did You Kiss the Dead Body?," a series of works based on autopsy reports and death certificates of Afghan and Iraqi men who died in American military prisons abroad which she obtained through an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Freedom of Information Act request.
The title for the project comes from Harold Pinter's poem "Death," which he recited upon receiving his 2005 Nobel Prize.
[5][6] Kahlon's work illuminates and overlaps histories of science and medicine, imperialism, colonialism, and terror, and draws parallels between seemingly disparate moments in time and knowledge.
[7] Kahlon is one of a number of artists working with the documents and ethnographic materials related to the War on Terror, including artist Jenny Holzer and Index of the Disappeared (a collaborative project of Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani).
[11][12] Miriam Oesterreich and Reinhard Spieler edited a critical monograph entitled Double Vision to accompany her 2012 eponymous exhibition at Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie.