Birth Currents explores the immense power of birth and the capacity of the female body to carry and bring life into the world. Through a series of photographs and intuitive written reflections, the installation weaves together the visceral and the poetic, through the female gaze.
My perspective is deeply shaped by the home I grew up in. Raised by a midwife and a hospice worker, I learned to see birth and death as natural, cyclical parts of life. The way my mother spoke so passionately about the women she supported during birth left a lasting impression on me. That, combined with the striking absence of birth imagery in art, became the seed from which this project grew.
Birth Currents has been exhibited in The Grey Space in the Middle, Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague and Nieuw en Meer. A review of the exhibition has been published by Metropolis M. De Correspondent has published the article ‘Wie is de baas tijdens jouw bevalling?’ along with 7 photos of the project. t
Birth Currents - Hanna Burgers
