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PARTO DE MÍ. PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO

How many ways are there to be born? Are there other cultures of birthing? If women refused to give birth, who would do the work of engendering? How to give birth from non-motherhood? Birth from me began its origin in 2017, when I had my first contact with non-hegemonic “mothering” practices on the outskirts of Harare, a native community in Zimbabwe; The experience led me to question the paradigms of the individual-community binomial and other ancestral forms of parenting. Taking as a starting point the metaphor of giving birth to myself, with my own body as a medium, this work investigates the mystery of procreation and questions the ability to gestate in contemporary society. Perhaps it is a criticism of individualis.
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After dismantling the burdens of the normative social ideology on motherhood in my creative project Parto, I open up the plan to record other contexts, cultures, and practices of “being a mother” that are not hegemonic and deeply rooted in ancestral forms of upbringing under the title Parto de mí, because the journey always comes back to the mirror itself. Parto de mí goes a step further to delve into “the mystery of procreation” and “questioning the ability to gestate in contemporary society as both a personal and collective phenomenon”, the formalization of which is based on the metaphor of “giving birth to oneself” as a paroxysm of individualism in contemporary neoliberal societies, where I place my body as a space for research and discursive expression. This way, I trace a timeline of gestation and birth marked by the desire and questioning of motherhood over seven years in the context of diverse contemporary societies, which in turn forms a reflection of my more visceral and introspective artistic and vital process.

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CREDITS

PHOTOGRAPHY. mireia deulofeu

Styling. Gina Berenguer Barnils

Make-up. catalina sartor

Making of & Video Editing. laura alcalde

Photo Print. egm


Acknowledgments. Orlando Britto Jinorio & Alejandro García Schnetzer

DATA SHEET

Three photographs 130 x 190 cm

Four photographs 190 x 130 cm

Video 15’59’’

PRESENTED AT

15 Bienal de la Habana

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba, 2024 - 2025

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