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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
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… Lipi’s sculptures address female marginality and speak most specifically to violence facing women in Bangladesh. The razor blades also references her memories of witnessing the birth of her nieces and nephews as a child growing up in the small town of Gaibandha, where the tool was often used during delivery.
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I think that’s bullshit. I don’t see the connection between her “art” and Bangladeshi women being marginalized, and/or brutalized.
The razor blade is a tool used by both sexes... or is it all sexes now? It may well represent those things to her but expecting others
to make that connection is tenuous at best. |
An educated guess is that the use of blades during deliveries was to perform
episiotomies. That lead me to wonder if part of the "violence" referred to could be Female Genital Mutilation since blades could be used for that. I did a few searches; but, didn't find Bangladesh listed among the countries noted for practicing FGM. The violence connection isn't obvious to me either and it had a better chance than
being marginalized.