{"product_id":"hiding-nothing","title":"Hiding Nothing","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnita Pati's debut collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHiding to Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, explores the destabilising effects of violence, particularly empire's aftermath, on a psyche. Threaded with internal dialogue, this multi-layered work witnesses how unbelonging can unsettle perceptions of the brown female body within an unwelcoming, even hostile, environment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom 'exotic' dodos punished for not being doves to Greenface, on whom blonde girls birth natterjack toads, marginal presences tell their stories. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHiding to Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e suggests that complex and damaging legacies in all their forms can create shockwaves that reverberate over a lifetime, stopping lives from reaching their full potential. And the trauma experienced through centuries of colonial history continues to be embodied and enacted.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese perceptions of body-image and self-worth are picked up in the central documentary sequence, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBloodfruit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, which is based on interviews with women. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBloodfruit\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003egives voice to the less heard narratives of infertility and difficult trajectories towards becoming, or not becoming, a 'mother'. Here, the often-fraught notions of womanhood and motherhood are also shown to feed into ideas on who is able to mother.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePati uses an original, lyrical approach towards the ambiguities and ambivalences that cloud our decisions. Ultimately, ambient aggressions towards our own and other bodies can only be made good by breaking the cycle. Pati unravels compacted pain but those looking for easy answers or redemption will find no compromise here.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Pavilion Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43099002994839,"sku":"9781800854826","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9857\/1159\/files\/hidingnothing.jpg?v=1683969851","url":"https:\/\/bookbag.mom\/products\/hiding-nothing","provider":"Bookbag Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}