Juliana Cerqueira Leite, A Potential Space, 2016, artist book


Juliana Cerqueira Leite, A Potential Space, 2016, artist book


Anatomical Fictions: Representing the Vagina

Wellcome Collection, London

2th September 2017

Brazilian sculptor Juliana Cerqueira Leite presents a performative talk on her artist book, A Potential Space, that was acquired by the Wellcome Library. Her book is a work of ‘anatomical fiction’ that re-imagines how the vagina is represented.

A Potential Space proposes a re-reading of the cultural and theoretical frameworks that surround representations of the female sex. The book contains no printed text. Instead 83 laser-cut pages accrete into a small negative form. Each page reveals an individually cut outline derived from a 3D scanned body cast. These outlines combine to represent the inner topography of a vagina, originally cast inside of a body, now contained as negative space within the book.

Following the talk, a Q&A with curator Nora Heidorn further explores the politics of the medical gaze onto the female body.

www.apotentialspace.com

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