Bauge is a performance artist living and working in the Netherlands. Her work challenges the boundaries of gender, labor, and identity, using the body as a tool to deconstruct societal norms and provoke critical reflection.
Post.Partum.Body.
"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
Post. Partum. Body. — Performance Art piece by Larysa Bauge. The work challenges body stigma, celebrates motherhood, and opens space for collective reflection on beauty, shame, and visibility in a patriarchal world.