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Stiliyana Minkovska
Architect | Artist | Designer | Maker | Researcher
Left overs
THE MATERNAL FEMALE BODY AS A PLACE
Artists participating in the Mother Art Prize 2017 competition responded to the theme ‘Left Overs’: What’s left of our sanity, bodies, sexuality, time and identities when mothering? What remains unused or unconsumed? How do left overs feed creativity? 20 artists voicing the diversity of motherhood and womanhood through a multimedia art show hosted at the 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning between the 16th and 29th of Nov 2017.
The maternal mould was created by 3D scanning the female body during the final, 9th month of gestation. Then the scanned model was amended digitally and CNC-ed using a chemiwood material. The mould was initially made to serve as a base for a bronze cast of the pregnant body. The womb is a container for the child who takes form there and the woman’s sex organ is a container for the man’s sex organ, which takes/keeps/metamorphoses form therein.
According to Luce Irigaray, the woman could be:
-a container for the child - virtually, the only place – the womb;
-a container for the man - not a place, but a passage, perforation aiming for container for the child;
-a container for herself - interiorise the container-mother in herself as container;