the menses tapes (come play withe me)

Rachel Ara
The Menses Tapes (Come Play With Me), 2016
Digital Print
84 cm x 87 cm
£340

The 'crises' of a woman's life have been much descanted upon by men medical writers [and] perhaps the most artificially created has been her 'change' *

*Marie Stopes, Change of Life in Men and Women

The Menses Tapes (Come Play With Me) is a work  in poster format that takes the letters from the word menopause as a starting point. Language is limited to the letters drawing comparison to the limitations imposed upon women. Women's bodies have been and still are; designated dangerous, controlled by men and our natural rhythms pathologized. 
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