{"product_id":"my-birth-carmen-winant","title":"My Birth - Carmen Winant","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"product__content\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__description truncated--disabled\" itemprop=\"description\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA book of text and image,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy Birth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003einterweaves photographs of the artist Carmen Winant’s mother giving birth to her three children with found images of other, anonymous women undergoing the same bodily \u003c\/span\u003eexperience. As the pictorial narrative progresses, from labour through delivery, the women’s postures increasingly blend into one another, creating a collective body that strains and releases in unison. In addition to the photographic sequence,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Birth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eincludes an original text by the artist exploring the shared, yet solitary, ownership of the experience of birth. A facsimile of Winant’s own journal, this book asks: What if birth, long shrouded and parodied by popular culture, was made visible? What if a comfortable and dynamic language existed to describe it? What if, in picturing the process so many times over and insisting on its very subjectivity, we understood childbirth, and its representation, to be a political act?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","brand":"MACK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50603887886498,"sku":"ceu1791829998565","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/4385\/2450\/files\/my-birth---carmen-winant_1.webp?v=1791830008","url":"https:\/\/www.vivpax.com\/products\/my-birth-carmen-winant","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}