name:

Le Confessional des Bouches Prison

materials:

mdf / metal

dimensions:

80cm x 120cm x 200cm

exhibit: 

Ministery of Culture / Bourglinster, Luxembourg  / castle of Larochette  / Hariko, Luxembourg

available at:

request by e-mail

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By means of this installation in the shape of a confessional,

Sophie Medawar is requesting the participation of both women and men

to set the Imprisoned Mouths free.

The artist invites you to donate your taboos by writing them down

on one of the sheets of paper provided in the booth and depositing

them in the box.

 

◊ Definition of a taboo: An unspeakable fact or thought,

linked

to sacredness.

 

For the artist, the Woman is sacred.

 

And she loves to play with the cultural image

of woman that is very rooted in time.

 

The values of femininity can never be reduced to a caricature,

such as that of the female object, for instance,

but they are not enlightened by feminist militant action either.

The essence of femininity is linked to Sacredness.

And it is probably its imperceptible nature that has always

motivated artists to want to describe it - without ever quite succeeding.

 

In this sense, by means of the Imprisoned Mouths, the artist suggests

that you participate in the constitution of a living work of art by freeing

your [own] Imprisoned Mouths and confessing your taboos to the confessional box.

These Taboo Archives will later form the basis for other works.

 

Visitors to this exhibition are invited to discover this new symbolic function

of art by becoming active participants in its creation.

The confessional of the Imprisoned Mouths is designed as a nomadic

and participative installation