Delphine Gardey, POLITIQUE DU CLITORIS, 2019

Drawn in chalk on the sidewalks of our cities, brandished during demonstrations in favor of women’s rights, the clitoris is displayed as a new means of action and advocacy. The body, long denied, misunderstood or repressed, asserts itself as much in the scientific and medical field as in the public and political space. Showing it as current knowledge describes it is the way for women to reclaim their bodies, their sexuality and their history. What is the difference between the current full-size 3D clitoris, the infant clitoris of the Freudian theory or the Renaissance labia minora? How and why to measure, dissect, sew, circumcise, excise, repair or standardize the organ? Which clitoris for which sexuality but also which policy? Clitoris of yesterday and today, scholarly and profane clitoris, clitoris of West and East, hetero or lesbian clitoris, Delphine Gardey explores the way in which medical knowledge and practices shape and define the intimate experience of women: an issue of individual or collective struggle.