The Womb Project is an artistic project I lead to bring visibility to experiences related to female genitalia and gynecological health. It grew out of my experiences with endometriosis, tumours, surgeries and perimenopause, and has expanded to embrace other women’s stories.
Through movement sesions, interviews, women’s circles and performance works, it creates spaces for listening, connection and expression. A book and a digital archive, currently in development, will bring together testimonies, photographs and materials that expand on these shared experiences.
The Womb Project uses art to raise awareness of the body, question silence and the normalisation of pain, and build community.
PROJECT BACKGROUND
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On the last years I have been sharing my story, with other woman and I have listen to theirs. The more I keep sharing the more I was observing that most of them, like me, didn’t have information or were never on conversations about those subjects until their cases started.
Everybody is different and even when a “problem” or diagnosis is on the same “category”, the story change from one to other person. Factors as the doctor visits, the way of being treated, places they live on, emotional confrontations, age, and nameless of factors that create each experience unique and important.
I value experience because of that uniqueness and apart from the medical and scientific factors that we can find on books or the internet, we rarely hear from the voice of whom experienced it.
Many the stories I heard have helped me to feel that I am not alone on this journey and I wish I heard them before.
Inspired by the stories and the lack of personal information available I decided to create this new project “The womb project” to give space and time to listen those bodies and to visibilize female genitalia subjects.
‘Funded by the European Union’ and the Goethe-Institut
‘This work was produced with the financial assistance of the
European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the
official opinion of the European Union’.
