Excision
Excision
© Circé
oil on canvas
9in. x 12in.
$275.00CAD
This physically small painting refers to a huge and long standing practice of FGM ( female genital mutilation ). The image of an excised vagina, the labia has been removed, is a horrifying and blatant image of the practice and it’s impact on women. In contrast to the journey towards coming into her own vagina, Circé sees this image as iconic in the war against women and the ownership and ultimate control over women’s bodies.
الختان شي مهم فهو نضافه للمراءه من الاتهابات وغيرها من
You say that excisions are important for a woman’s cleanliness ( hallal ? ) and other reasons that you do not specify, but the facts are not reflective of what you advance. Female Genital Excisions are to put it quite simply, a patriarchal machination, a tool to control women bodies and reproductive autonomies. These mutilations are prevalent not only i many African countries but in Middle Eastern countries such as Kurdish Irak and Egypt to mention but those two.
Deaths, infections and other major health problems are part and parcel of FGM’s as well as the veil of silence about it’s continued use. I paint on topics that are anti women and FGM are very much anti women and young girls.
Hello Madhurima, Yes, it is inhuman, very brutal. Yet, it is justified as being tradition and therefore somehow a good thing. It is simply another way in which violence is visited upon women and young girls each day, week, month and year in certain places of the world. Excisions have no logical reasons for existing other than as a sort of idiotic control mechanism dreamed up by males. There are many variations of excisions, some much more savage than others, in this piece we can see that the labia majora and minora are all but destroyed.
I thank you for posting on this painting I created some years ago, it rarely gets attention or rather, commented on. I think it bothers us as people to know that such crimes are still being committed and maybe we prefer turning our heads the other way and pretend all is fine, that young girls aren’t being subjected to such horrors.
Circé
I did not know about this practice.This is inhuman
Hello and thank you for the like adollyciousirony