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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
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<a href="https://www.metrasaberova.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.metrasaberova.com/</span></a>
Medium
video art
animation
performance
painting
installation
Location
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London
United Kingdom
Riga
Latvia
Artist Statement
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taking the bodily, medical and performative contents that make up my artistic practice, I use my own orchestrated experiences of medical tourism procedures as a public platform to encourage discussion about the cultural, political and social meanings assigned to the female body and its capabilities. The bodily interventions include tubal ligation in Thailand, hymenoplasty in Poland, IVF consultations in Bulgaria and full breast tattoos in Latvia. I believe that upholding the high status of motherhood and treating childfree people as deviations from the standard of motherhood is clearly limiting to childfree women in terms of their acceptance as valuable contributors to the society and as people free of biological determinism. The aim of my artistic research is to contribute to the growing field of investigation in the childfree lifestyle and to question the standard of the normativity of motherhood for women in the Western society and to link the social </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">stigmatization of childfree people with investigations in sociology, performativity, bioethics, body art, feminism and queer theory</span><b>.</b></p>
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Topic
childfree
motherhood
pregnancy
IVF
sterilization
gender
queer
body
feminism
bioethics
performance
Exhibitions
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<p><a href="http://kunstimaja.ee/2017/11/metra-saberova-pimpin-yo-mama-crib-avamine-17-11-kl-18-00"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Solo show Pimpin' Yo Mama Crib, curator Šelda Puķīte, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu, Estonia</span></a></p>
<a href="https://www.biennalejce.com/en/home/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jeune Creation Europeenne touring group exhibition in France, Italy, Denmark, Romania, Spain, Portugal and Latvia in 2018/2019</span></a>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Next Thing, Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre, Moving Image Gallery, Bury, UK</span></p>
MOTHER, CINEMQ, Elevator, Shanghai, China
Queer Art(ists) Now, And What? Queer Arts Festival, The Mill Co. Project, London, UK
International Videoart Week of Lanzarote, CIC El Almacen, Lanzarote, Canary island
Hiding in plain sight, The Flying Dutchman, London, UK
is this (not) a woman, tAD gallery, Texas, USA
Visions, Nunnery gallery, Bow arts, London, UK
RETHink Art Digital Festival, Crete, Greece
Amy Johnson Festival, The 75 Seconds Film Challenge, Hull, UK
Big Screen, Latitude festival, UK
Dublin Core
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Title
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Mētra Saberova
animation
bioethics
body
childfree
feminism
gender
installation
IVF
Latvia
London
motherhood
painting
performance
pregnancy
queer
Riga
sterilization
United Kingdom
video art