The Mum and the Whore. An essay on femininity
Ever since I gave birth, I have grappled with opinions about how I should behave if I wanted to be a good mother. Prompted, moreover, by the insistent public disputes about who is and isn’t the subject of feminism, I decided to immerse myself in a project that would take the form of a video-essay in order to understand better this enigma of the feminine.
Taking as a starting point the idea that what is represented does not pre-exist its representation, but that representation itself is what creates what it represents, I began a series of conversations with different women. I began with a prostitute I had befriended through her participation in De Putas. An essay on masculinity, a project I had developed at an earlier date. Two years later the series of conversations would conclude in a meeting with my own mother.