Clara Martin

Necessary Torture

"The home is a site of creation and destruction, it is a place of comfort and suffering. Historically, the home has been a feminine domain and so is symbiotic to the feminine. The alignment of opposites in spaces such as this inform one another, it is a tale of give and take. For many centuries the tasks women performed were considered needful, helpful, wise, and in some cases holy. They were midwives and healers, and in old age a sage of wisdom. With the publication of the Malleus Maleficarum, this behaviour was contextualised as the root of all evil. It is important to acknowledge that the feminine is capable of both."