If you create or own art
concerning menstruation or menopause and are
interested in showing it on thesepages (it's
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Marie Claire magazine
(Italian edition) featured several of the
above artists in an article
about this museum and menstruation in 2003.
The newspaper Corriere della Sera (Io Donna
magazine) (Milan, Italy) and the magazine
Dishy (Turkey) showed some of the artists in
2005 in articles about this museum.
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The Art of Menstruation at the Museum of
Menstruation and Women's Health
All photos © 2008 Isa Sanz
Isa Sanz writes,
In this photograph [above]
the girl is posing opposite the
camera but the message which she
is writing frontally on the white
wall is the punctum, the word
amor, which means love in Spanish,
and it reveals my intentions in
this series and my relation to the
blood during menstruation, seeing
my own blood as a part of a female
nature. I try to represent a
transformation by using the image
of the girl in the photo as an
element in which the blood that
flows out from her transforms all
the negative established ideas
about menstruation, showing what
had to be hidden. So it's building
a semantic message for the viewer
that is a positive message that
can be read from different angles.
In an immunized world invaded by
pornographic images of pain,
destruction and suffering, I think
that these kinds of positive ideas
have more impact on the viewer
than an image of destruction. In
the times we are living, a
positive message can be more
subversive than a negative one.
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