Mother, we all have been lonely and lovely places
By: Lara Konrad
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Gato Negro Ediciones
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Mexico City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9786079796907
Subjects: Body image in art
Description: Mother, We All Have Been Lonely and Lovely Places serves as a trajectory of personal history, narrating the various stages of female dependency in a patriarchal landscape. As the book intimately examines emotional and sexual behavioral patterns of relationships that (re)formulate in accordance to the inevitable process of aging, its readers not only witness adopted gender performativities within society, but gradually begin to notice the universal longing to unearth purpose in hopes of outgrowing human loneliness.
Notes: Printed in Risograph and Silk-screen print.

"What does it mean to have been born white and female, automatically assigned with a long-lasting purpose of body, and just body? What happens when an identity -- necessarily conditioned by youth and other pre-disposed, universal ideals for female acceptance and admission -- begins to meet its inevitable end? What type of body will I be after this body is no longer the body I learned to live and depend on Having adopted a life that over the course of time assumed the role of spectator instead of participator, it's especially the premises of sexual relationships that eventually endorsed a type of female performativity -- my body, a body that was never my own."--Printed Matter website (viewed on 1/24/2019)