32 to 40 Weeks

Tracy Lindner Gander with Arnold Erasmus

The series documents the transformation of the pregnant body during the last six weeks of pregnancy. The changing body signifies shifts of identity from individual to that of mother or parent. The pregnant belly is a heavily loaded signifier. It can bring out a range of external response from admiration to rage. In a strange dichotomy, the body is no longer one's private business. A Victorian attitude still exists where the pregnant body should be hidden from view. Simultaneously, the body seemingly becomes public property, open to opinion and consent to be touched by strangers. A peephole device places the viewer in a voyeuristic role of outsider, looking in on the woman in the private space of her bathroom. - T.L. Gander

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