Hysteria was considered a disease only occurring in women.

Oh, did we hear stories about hysterical women
during centuries.

One of the methods to cure Hysteria was that the womb
was supposed to be filled with babies constantly, to prevent
it from wandering and causing strong emotional outcries.

​Another cure was putting women away, behind bars and
yet another cure was to let the doctor masturbate them with vibrators, which caused an enormous increase of hysteria!

In Galerie Helmut I developed a playful way to decode the stigma
of ‘hysteria’ and invited the visitors to participate in
a discussion in togetherness.

All visitors were welcome to add drawings of ideal wombs,
to discuss the stigma’s of female hysteria in an interactive
board-game and to decorate menstruation pads.

Credit pictures: Fanni Papp, galerie Helmut,
Leipzig, Germany