Mum
Bec Litvan
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons)

Mum
The 'Mum' series transfigures and celebrates the disabled body ravaged by breast cancer, and the consequent dehumanising medical procedures. Specifically, the series focuses on bodily scarring in order to contest the prejudicial and marginalising societal attitudes and constraints regarding the disabled female form. By creating ethereal landscapes from mastectomy scars, and by creating wearable mastectomy bras from flowers and thread - which take inspiration from cancer cells - the series seeks to transform the debilitated female body into something that can be exalted, and no longer merely reducible to an affect of resentment or disgust.