Stills from Nothing Gets Through digital video 39s 2017

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The video, Nothing Gets Through, is constructed using still images.The images are manipulated, cut up and superimposed over each other to create a “constellation” of memory images. The images of birth used in the video are taken from A Handbook for Midwives and Maternity Nurses printed in 1909, which was given to me when I was pregnant with my first child. I have used these images to represent the entry of this particular female body into a patriarchal, medicalised discourse.The title of the work, Nothing gets Through, is taken from Helene Cixous’ Castration or Decapitation.

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Nothing Gets Through was shortlisted for the Birth Rites Collection Competition 2017.