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Post. Partum. Body.
Project type
Solo performance
Date
September 2021
Location
Plein Theater, Amsterdam
"A body that conjured life—split open, stretched, swollen—is wrapped in plastic and cotton. Leaking, aching, alive. Too real to be seen. Called ugly. Called too much. A miracle tucked away. I ring a cow bell. Slowly, I reveal the body. Choir music fills the space. I sing a song to you".
In this piece I am exploring the raw, poetic truth of the postpartum body. Six weeks after giving birth, I slowly reveal my healing body to choir music, ringing a cow bell in a ritual of visibility. This work confronts societal discomfort around postpartum bodies—bodies that have performed a miracle, yet are wrapped in diapers, hidden, labeled as “ugly” or “used.”
Performed at Plein Theater, Amsterdam, 2021
Photography by Baiba Yurkevich
