Ritratti di Pancia - Storie di cesarei e di ferite emotive
Not only the vocal cords have the power to create vibrations and give voice to our thoughts and emotions. There are other parts of the body that sometimes can express empathy even better: the eyes, the lips, the hands, and the womb, the vital center of a woman’s permanent center of gravity.
The belly smiles, cries, worries, suffers, protects and gives life.
The project called “Ritratti di pancia” (“Belly portraits”), was born out of Congia’s encounter with several women, who gave birth via C-section. Congia’s works reveals how for these women having a C-section has become a physical and emotional wound. An experience that made these women feel like “half mothers”, who cheated their way out of natural childbirth, which remains, in their minds, the solely and ultimate way to achieve real motherhood.
The project does not aim to condemn the C-section procedure. On the other hand Congia shares these women’s experiences, as a way to help them in finally seeing themselves as complete and “legitimate” mothers.
The belly smiles, cries, worries, suffers, protects and gives life.
The project called “Ritratti di pancia” (“Belly portraits”), was born out of Congia’s encounter with several women, who gave birth via C-section. Congia’s works reveals how for these women having a C-section has become a physical and emotional wound. An experience that made these women feel like “half mothers”, who cheated their way out of natural childbirth, which remains, in their minds, the solely and ultimate way to achieve real motherhood.
The project does not aim to condemn the C-section procedure. On the other hand Congia shares these women’s experiences, as a way to help them in finally seeing themselves as complete and “legitimate” mothers.
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