Upcoming exhibition that will run from March 28-30 in Athens, Greece.
It will feature mixed media artworks (photography, video and installations) by Athens-based artist and art therapist Natalia Talamagka.
Curation: Eleni Chasioti
Production: Anna Makri
The exhibition will aim at raising awareness of the topic and honouring one’s experience post-abortion; this may be the first step into allowing one to unravel the narrative of their experience and detect the memories of which they feel too heavy to carry as well as embracing their own personal journey.
The discourse on abortion rights has risen and the tightening of restrictions around safe access to abortion, is a reminder that we keep having to fight for reproductive justice.
Through the criminalisation of abortion, and the ideas around this procedure but also pregnancy in general, which are hidden in laws and cut off one’s chance to be an active participant in the decisions they are making, it becomes evident that intersectional thinking is lacking around that topic.
These are few of the cases where pregnancy and abortion is being criminalised and controlled in the majority of the cases, by white male legislators
(Swan-Foster, 2020).
The effect of hierarchy and power in society really ‘lands’ on the body and can be traumatising.