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It is 2019 when I first meet June – I am a new mother then and feel alien in my own body, perhaps because the body I have lived in for so long no longer feels like my own. I hardly have time to take care of myself, milk is leaking from my breasts and I am lonely like never before. My life has been turned inside out like a piece of clothing that you pull over your head and, with the inside turned outwards, take off. That's how I feel when I meet June for the first time, turned inside out, empty, a fragile vessel, hollow.
At the time, June is giving birth to a new body of work. She is preparing her exhibition No Osso (In the Bone) at Uma Certa Falta de Coerência. Her sculptures seem to hold something within - echoes of bodies, of absence, of structures made to hold or contain - and I immediately sense a connection between my situation, my body, the memory of pain or the pain of memory, June herself and her work. Understanding takes place in the inbet…
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It is 2019 when I first meet June – I am a new mother then and feel alien in my own body, perhaps because the body I have lived in for so long no longer feels like my own. I hardly have time to take care of myself, milk is leaking from my breasts and I am lonely like never before. My life has been turned inside out like a piece of clothing that you pull over your head and, with the inside turned outwards, take off. That's how I feel when I meet June for the first time, turned inside out, empty, a fragile vessel, hollow.
At the time, June is giving birth to a new body of work. She is preparing her exhibition No Osso (In the Bone) at Uma Certa Falta de Coerência. Her sculptures seem to hold something within - echoes of bodies, of absence, of structures made to hold or contain - and I immediately sense a connection between my situation, my body, the memory of pain or the pain of memory, June herself and her work. Understanding takes place in the inbet…
