My Birth
Published on 2. April 2018
Book
Hardback
120 pages
978-1-9998144-4-1 (ISBN)
Description
In My Birth, Carmen Winant interweaves photographs of her mother giving birth with with found images of other, anonymous women undergoing the same bodily experience, establishing an expansive visual language around childbirth and understanding it as a political act.
Reviews / Votes
The work is a breathtaking insight into the life-changing experience of birth, something that, as Winant explains, is rarely talked about or seen in the public sphere.-- "Elephant"Gives a vital clarity to a universal experience that often goes overlooked.-- "Wallpaper*"
Informed by the legacy of feminist artists who use found images and documentary footage in a research-based practice.--Jen Schwarting "BOMB"
Winant directly addresses our general discomfort with the physical aspect of childbirth, forcing viewers to look directly at it, the universal starting point. With images of intense, pure pain, the installation feels like an affront; but it is, at its core, something basic, repeated daily.--Alicia Kroell "Hyperallergic"
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
MACK
ISBN-13
978-1-9998144-4-1 (9781999814441)
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