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Stiliyana Minkovska
Architect | Artist | Designer | Maker | Researcher
Erotic kit for internal selfies
The pregnant female body became the site for a project with its all physiological, psychological, emotional and material transformations. The mother could feel constant tumult as the baby hiccupped, flexed her body and tested with elbows, knees and feet the limits of her inner space. The baby became a bulky, impertinent, spirited presence within the maternal-feminine body, simultaneously an integral part of her and an independent entity.
The Erotic Kit would like to expand the limited metaphors used to illustrate pregnancy. The author would like to find a highly spatial language, which would allow the project to evolve into a tangible quality.
In order to achieve more immaterial, metaphysical approach to the area of interest the female body as a place was observed beyond the pregnancy. The woman as a place, as an envelope and container and the way the maternal-feminine remains a place separated from its own place, hence re-envelopes herself within herself twice – as a woman and as a mother. The female body was witnessed as a served place where the man and the woman are able to stay contained/enveloped. A place, which transmits itself from one envelope to another, modifying itself moment by moment. The woman as a habitat for both matter and nature. The mother-innkeeper as an environment and the foetus as its occupant.
As part of the project and the idea of investigating the woman as a place and more specifically the pregnant woman’s body as a site and the structure of pregnancy, a series of internal photographs have been taken to capture the interior condition of the female container for the child, using the Erotic Kit for Internal Selfies. This methodology continued after the birth to trace the transformation of colour within the mother’s body.