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Art & Motherhood

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This blog is a series of thinking pieces based on my current research on

art & motherhood.

What is a mother? What could a mother be?

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-A

Arlette

Jun 114 min read

PRETTY VIOLENT

“The history of women in the past hundred years is based on the very dangerous ‘crossing of the boundary’ imposed by patriarchal...

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Feb 273 min read

Shame, Shame, Shame!

"Women are taught to hate themselves." My friend Lucy “(...) unrealistic and idealised notions of motherhood that circulate (and) are...

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Feb 82 min read

SPEECH!

“I killed that man because I told his name. And then I thought I would never speak again, because my voice would kill anyone.” Maya...

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Nov 23, 20233 min read

"The identity of the women is unclear."

"I decided I’m going to give you pregnancy in your face — and that’s what I did." Renée Cox I love Tate Britain Tate Britain sits right...

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Nov 13, 20231 min read

The sacred halo of motherhood

Contemporary women have been assigned a destiny: that of home carers and mothers. And for them to accept it smoothly, we crowned...

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Oct 18, 20232 min read

RISK

"Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome....

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Sep 12, 20233 min read

I AM A FEMINIST!

"I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just 'Thumbs up for the six billion'." Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman " Feminism is not...

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Sep 6, 20232 min read

SO UNFAIR!

"What's fair ain't necessarily right." Toni Morrison, Beloved "Mum, it's so unfair!" My 7 year-old child "Don't talk to me about...

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Aug 24, 20233 min read

When Mary Frees The Nipple

"Cover this breast which I cannot behold: Such a sight can offend one's soul. And it brings forth guilty thoughts." Tartuffe, Molière...

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Aug 24, 20231 min read

QUEEN

A historical insight... QUEEN MELISENDE She reigned in Jerusalem during the twelfth century, at a time when women were rarely regents....

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Aug 24, 20231 min read

The Pregnant Woman - a Western Taboo?

Pregnancy in Art studies on the representation of pregnant women in Western art show that, after the Renaissance, pregnancy slowly became...

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