1. concept
W3: Do you wanna hear about the tear in my body?The latex installation “Do you wanna hear about the tear in my body?” (2025) deals with issues of reproduction, body experience and the stigmas surrounding the topic of chronic pain. From a queer-feminist perspective, it questions social expectations of sick bodies, guided by the artist's own experience with endometriosis and chronic illness. Addressing a lot of gender and body dysphoria, frustration and rage, it confronts the experience of pain and vulnerability of the body and calls for a new view of the body that functions as a political and social instrument of capitalism.
“These constructed ideas are deeply rooted in eugenics, anti-Blackness, misogyny, colonialism, imperialism and capitalism. This systemic oppression leads to people and society determining people’s value based on their culture, age, language, appearance, religion, birth or living place, “health/wellness,” and/or their ability to satisfactorily re/produce, “excel,” and “behave.” You do not have to be disabled to experience ableism.”
- Johanna Hedva, “How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability and Doom”, 2024