Motherground (2024)
Motherground (2024)
This exhibition reflects on artistic practice, fertility, and maternity as forms of creative labour through an in-depth exploration of motherhood and how everyday gestures between a mother and child can be radical. At the core of MOTHERGROUND is an attempt to unravel the myriad transformations during the early developmental stages of motherhood, the relentless balance/imbalance that is at stake, and the oscillation between extreme emotions—from agony to ecstasy.
These works focus on the moments when the mother and child’s bodies merge and pull apart, morphing into altered shapes. The mother’s body functioning as the ground/soil/armature for the child to come into being. The performative images of MOTHERGROUND explore ideas of presence and absence, attachment, and desire, blurring the corporeal and psychic edges that link mother and child.
