https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/595ea613327e5dc1122c669ff47fbf8d.jpg 50a1bd741d08fe14f83ff2670e334e74 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.metrasaberova.com/">https://www.metrasaberova.com/</a> Medium video art animation performance painting installation Location The location of the interview London United Kingdom Riga Latvia Artist Statement Taking the bodily, medical and performative contents that make up my artistic practice, I use my own orchestrated experiences of medical tourism procedures as a public platform to encourage discussion about the cultural, political and social meanings assigned to the female body and its capabilities. The bodily interventions include tubal ligation in Thailand, hymenoplasty in Poland, IVF consultations in Bulgaria and full breast tattoos in Latvia. I believe that upholding the high status of motherhood and treating childfree people as deviations from the standard of motherhood is clearly limiting to childfree women in terms of their acceptance as valuable contributors to the society and as people free of biological determinism. The aim of my artistic research is to contribute to the growing field of investigation in the childfree lifestyle and to question the standard of the normativity of motherhood for women in the Western society and to link the social stigmatization of childfree people with investigations in sociology, performativity, bioethics, body art, feminism and queer theory. Topic childfree motherhood pregnancy IVF sterilization gender queer body feminism bioethics performance Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://kunstimaja.ee/2017/11/metra-saberova-pimpin-yo-mama-crib-avamine-17-11-kl-18-00">Solo show Pimpin' Yo Mama Crib, curator Šelda Puķīte, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu, Estonia</a> <a href="https://www.biennalejce.com/en/home/">Jeune Creation Europeenne touring group exhibition in France, Italy, Denmark, Romania, Spain, Portugal and Latvia in 2018/2019</a> The Next Thing, Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre, Moving Image Gallery, Bury, UK MOTHER, CINEMQ, Elevator, Shanghai, China Queer Art(ists) Now, And What? Queer Arts Festival, The Mill Co. Project, London, UK International Videoart Week of Lanzarote, CIC El Almacen, Lanzarote, Canary island Hiding in plain sight, The Flying Dutchman, London, UK is this (not) a woman, tAD gallery, Texas, USA Visions, Nunnery gallery, Bow arts, London, UK RETHink Art Digital Festival, Crete, Greece Amy Johnson Festival, The 75 Seconds Film Challenge, Hull, UK Big Screen, Latitude festival, UK Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mētra Saberova animation bioethics body childfree feminism gender installation IVF Latvia London motherhood painting performance pregnancy queer Riga sterilization United Kingdom video art