'Slippery Tongue' is part of a wider project that I am currently developing on ‘mother tongue’ or maternal language. It uses the idioms containing the word tongue. My practice finds its source in the gendered structure of the French language. During the 17th century, a grammarian and member of the Académie Française decided that ‘the male gender, being the more noble, must predominate every time that the masculine and the feminine are located together’. Basically, the French language is a question of (k)nobility. As a consequence, my work examines the de/construction of gender identity and its behavioural consequences in our society.
2021
gouache, watercolour collage
40.0 x 30.0cm
IP2102
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Slippery Tongue by Ingrid Berthon-Moine
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