Being a partner and a mother, a sexual subject and sexual object, looking and feeling “feminine” – being a woman means being a multiple. The female breast can be considered the physical expression of this ambivalence: it feeds, it brings pleasure, but it can host sickness, too. It can be a heavy burden, metaphorically but also quite literarily, as shown in
the series By the weight of their breasts, where women are drawn to the earth by the weight of their breasts, sweating and shaking. Once liberated from them, they first look at each other in surprise, but then proceed to enjoy the new experience of lightness and ease together. Not serving any purpose and no longer needed, the breasts lie on the floor like a pair of sad, fleshy shoes.