

The Art of Menstruation at the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health

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All photos © 2008 Isa Sanz Isa Sanz writes, In this photograph [ above ] the girl is posing opposite the camera but the message which she is writing frontally on the white wall is the punctum, the word amor, which means love in Spanish, and it reveals my intentions in this series and my relation to the blood during menstruation, seeing my own blood as a part of a female nature. I try to represent a transformation by using the image of the girl in the photo as an element in which the blood that flows out from her transforms all the negative established ideas about menstruation, showing what had to be hidden. So it's building a semantic message for the viewer that is a positive message that can be read from different angles. In an immunized world invaded by pornographic images of pain, destruction and suffering, I think that these kinds of positive ideas have more impact on the viewer than an image of destruction. In the times we are living, a positive message can be more subversive than a negative one.

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