What the Body Remembers: History is a Woman's Body
Original title: What the Body Remembers: History is a Woman's Body
Date: 2008 , United States
Art Form: Painting
Partition and Rape as a Weapon
Nationalism through the female body is explored in the What the Body Remembers art exhibition. This anti-memorial investigates rape as a weapon of war, and commemorates the over 300,000 women who were abducted and raped in the Partition of Indian in 1947, and the 200,000 - 400,000 women that were raped in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.
What the Body Remembers deploys the twice-life-sized, fragmented body. The lower halves of the female body are caught in moments of play such as swing, hopscotch, or jump rope.
United Nations Security Council resolution 798, adopted unanimously on 18 December 1992, condemned reports of the massive, organized, and systematic detention and rape of women, in particular Muslim women, in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War.
UN Resolution 798 was the first time the United Nations condemned the rape of women in wartime (UN Resolution 798 1992). Additional resolutions have been passed since then.
