Video Performance, 21 min, 2021, São Paulo

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What – or who- nourishes mothers?

This video-performance is a feminist critique of the ill gendered realities of contemporary maternal lives. It is about the hunger to locate female subjectivities in the aftermath of motherhood.

It is about maternal invisibility and guilt, socially and culturally mediated: the mother’s traumatic experience of intense, infantile helplessness coinciding with a period of radical bodily changes, grief, loss of social status,isolation, and unrealistic expectations of competence and self-sufficiency.

Most mothers are starving.