Zvonka T Simčič
No. 1172
"Ad Utero Ab Ovo"
Artist: Zvonka T Simčič
Title: Ad Utero Ab Ovo
Duration: 00:05:00
Year: 2007
Genre: Art video
Production: Zavod CCC

 
SYNOPSIS
Zvonka T Simčič is one of the few female visual artists whose works address the theme of motherhood in an extremely engage manner. In her innovative performance Doulas “ad utero, ab ovo” (2007) she critically addressed the problem of the (non-)possibility of single women being artificially inseminated, such that by means of the image of herself as the pregnant Virgin Mary she presented her own experience of insemination, pregnancy, and child birth. The performance Doulas “ad utero, ab ovo” was already an activist response to the appalling results of the referendum in 2001 when the majority voted against single women having the right to artificial insemination. With respect to this, it should be emphasized that Simčič, who is single, was inseminated in a country that does not allow for such medical procedure for women who do not live in a union with a man. (Alenka Spacal)



 
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