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"My mummy was beautiful" collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7882

Content Description

Shopping bag, buttons, postcards, and bookmark-size cards featuring images from the work, showing a woman's breast and vagina. The project My Mummy Was Beautiful (2004) consisted of the widespread distribution in Liverpool of two images: a woman's breast and vagina. The mother's vagina and breast are the child's introduction to the rest of humanity.

Dates

  • 2004

Creator

Biographical / Historical

The work was commissioned for the exhibition International 04 by the Liverpool Biennial.

Extent

8 items.

Language of Materials

English

General

Collecting program: Human Sexuality Collection.

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
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