breath taking - 2017 - relational installation
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Among the nomadic peoples of the Kalahari Basin, Namibia, expectant mothers make great efforts, often walking many miles, to ensure their babies are born exactly where they were conceived. Believing that conception occurs as a breath is exhaled at the point of orgasm, they consider this breath sacred, as the giver of life. They believe it resides, held in that place, waiting to become the first breath taken by their new born baby as it enters the world. |
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B R E A T H T A K I N G
window text, inflated paper bags
it isn't easy to define how or why the value of the bags is changed by the veracity of the text, but it undoubtedly is -
empty bags were taken home by a few complicit collaborators the evening prior to this exhibition - they were returned inflated and placed in the space as contributions -
the bags contain whatever we believe they contain
empty bags were taken home by a few complicit collaborators the evening prior to this exhibition - they were returned inflated and placed in the space as contributions -
the bags contain whatever we believe they contain