PRODUCTS OF CONCEPTION
2021
Products of Conception addresses the topic of spontaneous abortions. Twenty-three million miscarriages occur each year worldwide – that is, one in five pregnancies. Despite the fact that pregnancy loss is common, the silence around the phenomenon persists. It brings a grief that is often misunderstood and suffered in silence. Many women say it’s a strange feeling of having lost someone, without knowing exactly who to mourn. A unique and unpleasent sense of biological loneliness.
Here are women who have lived through this ordeal, accompanied by seeds, fruits, and vegetables that symbolize the residual products of conception. In the world of motherhood, each week of pregnancy brings a new comparison. At eight weeks, the fetus is the size of a raspberry; at twenty-four weeks, it is a corncob; at thirty-nine weeks, a watermelon.
Life through rose-coloured glasses. Losing her blue. Chromogenic Print, 23 x 34,5 in
It came out like a sausage. Chromogenic Print, 23 x 34,5 in
Contemplating, a belly full of dead fetus. Chromogenic Print, 23 x 34,5 in
Five years of trying. Bleeding on her son’s birthday. Confetti time. Chromogenic Print, 23 x 34,5 in
Collecting the sanitary pads, computing the hemorrhage. Chromogenic Print, 23 x 34,5 in
It’s all spotless now, darling. Chromogenic Print, 23 x 34,5 in
Miscarriages, generation to generation. Family portrait. Chromogenic Print, 23 x 34,5 in
Stillbirth. Two miscarriages. Waiting, with the plants, for winter to be over. Chromogenic Print, 23 x 34,5 in
Breaking her water at twenty weeks pregnant. Burying herself in denial. Chromogenic Print, 23 x 34,5 in
Dancing. Having two miscarriages. Leaving the troupe. Chromogenic Print, 23 x 34,5 in