The Witnessing Woman Series
The “witnessing women” in my title refers to Hilary Robinson’s developing of Luce Irigaray’s “parler – femme”. Mostly translated as “Speaking as Woman”, “Parler – femme” is Irigaray’s call for a new syntax in linguistics:
“What a feminine syntax might be is not simple or easy to state, because in that “syntax” there would no longer be either subject or object, “oneness” would no longer be privileged”
Robinson changes the translation “Speaking as woman”, to “Witnessing woman”. She associates “witness” with visible and intellectual connotations, making “Parler-femme” not only a concept for linguistics but as a productive concept for artists. For Robinson:
“the phrase can also indicate the woman and women who witness(es), an active witnessing of the construct ‘woman’, and the performative mode of a woman bearing witness.”
The images in this series are digitally printed, dimensions vary from: 52 x 150 cms to 150 x 160cms. Each is in an edition of 5.
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