On the island they demanded rudely to know who the father was. She responded by gesturing toward the sea. On land they take her for a deaf-mute.The women were first to stop greeting Irene.

The Story of Irene by Erri De Luca – 2013

The series Maternity is a vision of the woman infantilised by a society where the inequality of both sexes is uninhibited. Often referred to as motherhood and education, while she is at the forefront of arguing the notion of gender inequality; the woman submits by transmitting the way of thinking that is that of our own culture, our society. Thus, she enrolled over generations, girls and boys in a stereotype as in a destiny.

“It is urgent to shake up our society; whom even before the first breath of our children, decide that they will not have the same rights according to their sex.”Sauvagère

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