Art - Diba

The Pregnant Body in Art History: Visibility, Absence, and Form

Created: December 26, 2025 01:19 PM

For centuries, art has favored bodies that appear resolved, balanced, controlled, complete. Pregnancy disrupts this logic entirely. It is a state of constant transformation, a form that refuses stillness and challenges ideals built on permanence and proportion. The pregnant body unsettles visual systems grounded in mastery and order, exposing how visibility, time, and bodily change have been carefully regulated. In confronting pregnancy, art is forced to confront instability itself, not as failure, but as a fundamental condition of life.

Pregnancy in Fashion: Visibility, Agency, and Form

Created: December 26, 2025 01:33 PM

Maternity fashion has long been framed as a category of discretion—designed to soften, disguise, or minimize bodily change. This article examines how contemporary fashion repositions pregnancy not as a problem to manage, but as a form to engage. Moving beyond size-based solutions, it traces how silhouette, agency, and design logic reshape the maternal body as an active subject rather than a concealed condition.

Dressing After Collapse: Fashion in Post-Socialist Mongolia

Created: December 28, 2025 07:39 PM

What happens to style when the future arrives without instruction? When choice expands faster than meaning, and clothing precedes language? In some places, fashion does not emerge through refinement or desire, but through rupture, worn not to signify belonging, but to remain intact.

Held in Motion: Femininity and Control in Georgian National Dance

Created: December 28, 2025 08:06 PM

In Georgian national dance, as stabilized through Sukhishvili’s performances, movement is designed not for expansion, but for restraint. The female body on stage carries balance rather than individual expression. What is visible is tradition; what remains less visible is the order that sustains it.

Living the Unfinished

Created: December 28, 2025 09:44 PM

Completion has quietly lost its authority. What once waited to end now continues without promise. The question is no longer how things resolve, but how they are lived while remaining open.

Before Language

Created: December 28, 2025 09:55 PM

Culture does not begin in language. It begins in repetition, in correction, in the regulation of bodies within space. What follows does not argue this condition; it traces how it continues to move.

When Grief Refuses Silence: The Geography of Voice and Loss

Created: December 28, 2025 09:21 PM

Some forms of expression do not seek explanation. They appear when language no longer holds, when sound remains the only available gesture. This text moves through such moments, where voice surfaces not to resolve loss, but to remain with it.