Hysterectic£25.00
“This is a skilful, resonant documentation of a woman’s determination to
humanise and feminise the dehumanising and defeminising experience
of having a hysterectomy. It is a stunning, affecting, unforgettable piece
of work that deserves to be seen widely not just by girls and women,
but by men who care for them and also came from that intimate source.”
Cherry Smyth, poet and art critic
Whitefield follows in the venerable and vulnerable footsteps of artists
like Jo Spence, Helen Chadwick and Hannah Wilke, who chartered their
bodies’ visceral experiences through photographs. Using the form of a
visual diary, she leads us (and herself) through the tentative steps of
the admission to hospital, the pre-op prep and the results.
Linking hysteria, Hippocrates, poetry and the art of photography, she
explores the ordinary and extraordinary worlds of this emotional, mental
and physical body experience resulting in a rich photographic exhibition
and poetic book that blends fairytale with reality.
A LIMITED NUMBER OF SIGNED COPIES ARE AVAILABLE.
