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Patrícia Santos Deutschland 2014 Animals And Other Bodies triciazoe [at] hotmail.com +49 (0) 15210167583 |
Nothing here is just coincidence: ovary, follicle, egg, endometrium and blood. A natural thread that varies from woman to woman. Twenty eight or twenty one days plus the influx of hormones and then all over again, and again. In that order not always precise the time machine is imposed. The optimal conditions for these processes results in a fertile individual in which conception, pregnancy and birth can arise.
The reproductive cycle in women is rather complex and can be considered to begin with genetic programming and ending with menopause; biologically even if all women are "essentially" the same yet they do not bleed equally, they do not reproduce equally, they don't live equally and don't feel equal per se. In this series I tried to engage with the idea of fluidity of the being using the mechanism of menstruation as a metaphor. The changes and adjustments are intimately united every month. What exists is mutable and what is not mutable does not exist. No subject is absolutely definitve, everything is rather able to turn into a new substance All is a recurrent rotation that moves from birth until death. With blood woman frames unique and individual metamorphoses generating cycles that are itinerant, intangible but never immutable. |