Dysfertil
Janemaria Mekoline Pedersen
Blankt Papir
English
Book presented in graphite cardboard box
Signed and numbered edition 21 of 72.
70 pages
150 x 190 mm
2020
ISBN Not Available
It hasn’t been a problem getting pregnant over the years. Staying pregnant, however, has been riddled with bodily dysfunctionality for Janemaria.
Professional insemination and pharmaceutical aid did not change the circumstance that the fetus never transcended 12-weeks. Every time, her body would reject the pregnancy, and in its place, grief would grow.
Dysfertil is Janemaria’s journey towards acceptance, and in the book she turns herself inside out to show us the spectrum of hope and despair.
When Janemaria started working on this project she was still trying to become a mother. Dysfertil has been a long time coming.
The white, transparent pages of Dysfertil are held together with a glue-binding making the book fragile, but strong. The softcover book comes in either an open graphite cardboard box with no lid, where the book is tied down with a single string that needs to be loosened to remove the book from the box, or a closed graphite cardboard slipcase. The two versions refer to hope and fragility, but also loss and strength.
(source: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/products/dysfertil)
About the Artist
Janemaria Mekoline Pedersen is a danish photographer.
janemariamekoline.com
About the Publisher
Blankt Papir is an artistic platform focused on running workshops, books, and publishing, creativity and simplicity. Blankt Papir Press is their micro publisher who publishes the photo books The Year, Copenhagen 2018 , and in collaboration with photo artists publishes small print of photographic, handmade artist books
blanktpapir.com
(source: https://www.blanktpapir.com/about)
