Child brides

Nina Mankin
Child Brides
Print on archival acid free paper
Size A4
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Child Brides is about FGM and young child brides. Two best friends, twelve years old, are playing together, dressing up from the contents of a box that two men have left for them. They try on animal heads worn as masks and lingerie. What starts out as an innocent playful game, soon becomes heavily tinged with sexual violence and the end of their childhood. The blade on the ground and dark spots of blood is a crude reference to what would have been their sexual female centre ready to blossom, but has been forever castrated. Their hands, tied to strings, are being pulled by the men we cannot see on either side of each child. www.ninamankin.co.uk/home.html