THE SEXLESS WOMAN
2004
Oil on canvas
135X95cm
Oil on canvas
135X95cm
THE SEXLESS WOMAN tells about the sexuality of a female whose vagina is missing.
In the picture a male character too: a dubious surgeon whose appearance makes the whole scene look like a performance from some 1930s Berlin cabaret, which possibly casts a shadow over his reliabilty.
Has the surgeon's performance happened yet with the woman's voluntarily undergoing hysterectomy, or is it still to happen, with the uterus to be surgically "carved"? {is that in the left hand of the surgeon a blueprint for the operation?}. And does the woman want to rid herself of the uterus or would she actually want to have one, having been born without it? This may reveal, the woman's view on how important the vagina, as an object-tool for sex, is in the relationship equation.
In the picture a male character too: a dubious surgeon whose appearance makes the whole scene look like a performance from some 1930s Berlin cabaret, which possibly casts a shadow over his reliabilty.
Has the surgeon's performance happened yet with the woman's voluntarily undergoing hysterectomy, or is it still to happen, with the uterus to be surgically "carved"? {is that in the left hand of the surgeon a blueprint for the operation?}. And does the woman want to rid herself of the uterus or would she actually want to have one, having been born without it? This may reveal, the woman's view on how important the vagina, as an object-tool for sex, is in the relationship equation.