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Exhibition Website
<a href="https://www.baxterst.org/exhibitions-3/bodies-of-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.baxterst.org/exhibitions-3/bodies-of-work/</a>
Gallery
Baxter ST Camera Club of New York
Location
The location of the interview
New York
New York
Curator
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/416" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Corinne Botz</a>
Curatorial Statement
Bodies of Work, a group show curated by Corinne Botz, considers maternal experiences, with works by contemporary artists Marina Berio, Patty Chang, Lenka Clayton, Jamie Diamond, Nona Faustine, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, and Cao Yu. The artworks are stylistically diverse and incorporate a range of approaches, exploring inter-related themes including the body, time, politics, love, attachment, and separation. Normative and coherent ideals of motherhood are challenged, and the maternal is considered as a vital political force.
There has been a surge of artworks, books, and articles about motherhood over the past few years. To paraphrase a recent Paris Review article by Lauren Elkin, motherhood is finally being taken seriously in wider arts and a canon of motherhood is beginning to take shape. The subject of motherhood is urgent in the current political climate where there is a need to guarantee women control over their bodies. Women have begun to speak more candidly about health issues and biological processes that have in the past been cloaked in secrecy. Recent news articles have revealed bias against pregnant women and mothers in the workplace, and in spring 2018 the United States stunned the world when it declined to back a seemingly uncontroversial resolution to support breastfeeding in underdeveloped countries. For much of art history the subject of mothers were represented by men. Earlier generations of female artists often chose a career over motherhood or steered clear of explicitly addressing motherhood in their work because it was dismissed.
In this exhibition, maternal experiences, both overtly and obliquely, are transmitted into works that challenge preconceptions about being a mother and artist, while acknowledging the continued lack of resources and obstacles. The artists in Bodies of Work contribute something new to representations of motherhood, and offer an opportunity to delve deeper into the multiplicities that shape us.
Artists
Marina Berio
Patty Chang
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lenka Clayton</a>
Jamie Diamond
Nona Faustine
Alison Elizabeth Taylor
Cao Yu
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
April 16 – April 27, 2019
Topic
artist mother
art making
artists with children
attachment
separation
artist/mother
blood
breast milk
breast pump
breastmilk
body
care giving
care labor
care work
caretaking
caregiving
conceptual art
early motherhood
emotional space
empathy
environment
everyday life
familial heritage
female body
female experience
feminism
feminist art
loss
love
life balance
lactation
intimacy
maternal body
maternal experience
maternal desire
milk
menstruation
motherhood and creative practice
mother's body
mortality
mixed-race children
performativity
pumping
space
subjectivity
photography and motherhood
physical space
still life
women artists
work/life balance
workspace
masculinity
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Title
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Bodies of Work
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://www.corinnebotz.com/milk-factory2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.corinnebotz.com/milk-factory2</a>
Medium
photography
video
Location
The location of the interview
Brooklyn
New York
Artist Statement
Seeing and acknowledging what we see has an ethical dimension. I use photography to
make things visible and to reveal experience or spaces that we might not otherwise have access to. A sustained focus on space, gender, and the body is central to my work with photography. Lactation rooms are everyday spaces that embody deeply felt subjective experiences of motherhood. Symbolically and materially, expressed milk is a substitute for the mother’s physical presence and emotional intimacy when separated from her child. Photographs in my series “Milk Factory,” offer insight into women’s personal experiences, the maternal body’s status in the workplace, and ideological contradictions inherent in modern parenthood and government policies. The photographs are named for the diverse professions of the pumping women. The solitary pumping rooms take on collective power through the accumulation of photographs.
Topic
caretaking
labor
artist mother
art making
attachment
separation
breastmilk
breast pump
body
care giving
care labor
care work
caregiving
conceptual art
early motherhood
emotional space
empathy
environment
everyday life
familial heritage
female experience
feminism
feminist art
loss
life balance
lactation
intimacy
maternal body
maternal experience
maternal desire
milk
mother's body
pumping
space
subjectivity
solitary
government policy
workplace
photography and motherhood
physical space
work/life balance
workspace
wage
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/417" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Baxter ST Camera Club of New York</a>
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Title
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Corinne Botz
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.kimyibo.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kimyibo.com</a>
Medium
printmaking
installation
drawing
cards
Location
The location of the interview
Geneva
Switzerland
Seoul
Korea
Los Angeles
California
Artist Statement
Since 2010 my art has been about processing my experience of giving birth to and raising children—both the emotional aspect of it and the social context in which my stories are situated. To create a space of shared reflection, I created a collective called Institute of Mothering Artists, IOMA. Here is an excerpt from the manifesto of IOMA: “We are writing a new definition of the word “mother” where the work of caring does not assume a body of a woman, hence we want to use “mother” as an action verb. To mother means to care for or to protect someone or something.” (an excerpt from the manifesto for Institute of Mothering Artists, 2018) My thoughts on “mothering” were inspired by the stance of women who were mothering in the margins. In a book “Revolutionary Mothering,” a collection of writings by radical and queer black feminists, the editors Alexis Pauline Gumbs and China Martens, define mothering as an act of caring, nurturing, affirming, and supporting life. For me, mothering is doing the reproductive labor with love and using this very act of caring for others to fight the injustice. It is transforming the society while being transformed by the act of caring. In my personal art making, I try to capture this metamorphosing process that takes place when we take care of one another. The spaces I create through drawing, printmaking and installation become a metaphoric place where the visual elements and logic recreate the dynamics of interpersonal relationships.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
2018 oh motHER, Custom House Leith, Edinburgh, UK
2018 Casual Kitchen Art, Curated by Super Ego, Junkere 11, Bern, Switzerland
2018 À Table, Ressources Urbaines, Genève, Switzerland
2017 Paradoxical, Pneu, Velodrome Jonction, Genève, Switzerland
2012 Reflections (Duo Exhibition), Paul Whitney Larson Gallery, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
2012 Blessings II, Gage Family Art Gallery, Augsburg College, MN, USA
2011 Women: Relationship and Identity, Curated by Sarah Sampedro, Homewood Studios, MN, USA
Topic
art
art world
artist collective
artist mother
care
care giving
care labor
care taking
care work
caregivers
caregiving
emotional space
feminism
feminist
feminist art history
gender
gender equality
interdependence
maternal ambivalence
maternal care
maternal subjectivity
mother artist
mother artists
motherhood and art
motherhood and social context
mothering
racialized mothering
revolutionary mothering
queer parenting
representation of motherhood
reproductive labor
social justice
transformation
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Title
A name given to the resource
KimyiBo
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://gaiafugazza.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://gaiafugazza.com/</a>
Medium
painting
performance
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
I consider myself as part of a deviated group of animals that has, for some unknown reasons, forgotten how to symbiotically relate to their environment.
The objects and performances that I produce refer to episodes and images that in my daily life are example of this paradox. I consider my point of observation and personal history -a urban, white western woman and mother- but I attempt to stretch these occurrences into archetypal patterns distancing from a discourse on identity.
I attempt to distance my self from an anthropocentric understanding of all relations. Plants, animals, natural elements often appear in my works portrayed as having sentience, equal to people and sharing emotions.
Experimentation on techniques and craft plays and important role in my practice: materials compete, carry special metaphorical meanings and mingle with the figurative part of the work. This makes for characters suspended in symbolic actions deprived of time and historical context.
The idea of presence vs. distraction is also addressed in my performances.
I choreograph unexpected situations that engage the public as collaborators of experiments or rituals, all aiming at stimulating a deeper sense of self-awareness and communal presence within an animist landscape.
Topic
education
caretaking
contraception
IVF
witchcraft
acquisition of language
activism
anthropocene
artist mother
biology
birth control
birth
botanical
capitalism
care
care labor
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
2019 Mother Art Prize, Mimosa House, London
2018 Super Nature in Two Parts, Lisson Gallery, London, curated by Daria Khan
2018 Last Dance: Re-Imagined Futures / Mimosa Pudica, Lighthouse, Brighton
2017 Star Messanger, LUX, London; curated by PS/Y
2016 Invites: Gaia Fugazza /Present and Distracted, Zabludowicz Collection, London; curated by Paul Luckraft
2016 Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge; curated by Ami Barak
2015 The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London; curated by Daniel Hermann and Poppy Bowers
2015 No Foods Land, Biennale Mediterranea 17, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano; curated by Andrea Bruciati
2015 Studio Voltaire Open 2015, Studio Voltaire, London; selected by Cory Arcangel & Hanne Mugaas
2014 MA FA Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art, London
2014 Frosted and Defrosted, 44 Albion, London; curated by Taylor Le Melle
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Gaia Fugazza
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Title
A name given to the resource
Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Location
The location of the interview
Berlin
Germany
About
MATERNAL FANTASIES is an evolving and interdisciplinary group of international artists and cultural producers based in Berlin, Germany. We (re)connected in 2018 to share experiences and insights into the most marginalised topic within both the art world and feminist discourse: Motherhood.
We join forces to embrace, discuss, elaborate and express contrasting experiences and family stories, memories, fantasies, desires and horror scenarios related to ‘Maternal Fantasies’.
Currently we meet every three-weeks to examine through artistic research, collaborative artworks and lived experience the dynamics between artistic creation and motherhood seeking to shape the discourse of motherhood through our artistic working process.
We are an organic group that produces works in different constellations between the individual group members.
Current group members are: Aino El Solh, Hanne Klaas, Isabell Spengler, Lena Chen, Magdalena Kallenberger, Maicyra Leão, Melanie Schlachter, Mikala Hyldig Dal, Olga Sonja Thorarensen, Sandra Moskova.
Organization Website
<a href="https://www.maternalfantasies.net/">https://www.maternalfantasies.net/</a>
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://www.maternalfantasies.net/">https://www.maternalfantasies.net/</a>
Medium
photography
video
performance
collective
creative writing
Artist Statement
MATERNAL FANTASIES is an evolving and interdisciplinary group of international artists and cultural producers based in Berlin, Germany. We (re)connected in 2018 to share experiences and insights into the most marginalised topic within both the art world and feminist discourse: Motherhood.
We join forces to embrace, discuss, elaborate and express contrasting experiences and family stories, memories, fantasies, desires and horror scenarios related to ‘Maternal Fantasies’.
Currently we meet every three-weeks to examine through artistic research, collaborative artworks and lived experience the dynamics between artistic creation and motherhood seeking to shape the discourse of motherhood through our artistic working process.
We are an organic group that produces works in different constellations between the individual group members.
Current group members are: Aino El Solh, Hanne Klaas, Isabell Spengler, Lena Chen, Magdalena Kallenberger, Maicyra Leão, Melanie Schlachter, Mikala Hyldig Dal, Olga Sonja Thorarensen, Sandra Moskova.
Topic
academic writing
ambivalence
anger
art
art and research
art history
art making
artist collective
artist mother
artist network
artist residency
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
artists with children
binary tensions
body
capitalism
care
care labor
care work
caretaking
choreography
collaboration
collaborative project
community
discourse
contemporary art practice
costume
creative strategies
curatorial practice
daily practice
daily routine
daily tasks
domestic objects
domestic scene
domestic space
economy and caregiving
empathy
ethics
everyday activities
fair wages
relationship
feminism
feminist art
feminist art theory
feminist theory
feminist theory
gesture
identity
ideological motherhood
immigration
instinct
intuition of motherhood
interdependence
interdisciplinary
intergenerational
intersectionality
labor
maintenance
maternal
maternal affect
maternal ambivilance
maternal anxiety
maternal body
maternal bodies
maternal care
maternal collaboration
maternal defense
maternal desire
maternal experience
maternal fear
maternal guilt
maternal healthcare
maternal identity
maternal labor
maternal lineage
maternal mental health
maternal practice
maternal protection
maternal relationships
maternal subjectivity
maternal theory
maternal thinking
maternal time
maternal voice
maternal work
practice-led research
race
representation
representations of motherhood
reproductive labor
resistance
single mother
skillshare
social practice
story telling
studio practice
subjectivity
text
theory
time
women representation
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
M1, Arthur Boskamp Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt, April 2019 The photo-text installation "Like so many..." was exhibited at "Colleagues Wanted I - Superheroines and visionary associates for everyday challenges", at alpha nova galerie Berlin in September 2018.
upcoming: Soloexhibition, M1 Arthur Boskamp Foundation, Hohenlockstedt, March 2020 catalogue, Maternal Fantasies, to be published March 2020
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maternal fantasies
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Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://www.tracymarietaylor.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.tracymarietaylor.com</a>
Location
The location of the interview
Chicago
USA
Artist Statement
Cried Milk (2018 - present)
Cried Milk uses data collected from a smartphone app to visualize what it looks like to exclusively breast pump for twelve months. Each visualization represents one month of data. The blue rings represent one hour, the change in value tracks the hours of sunlight and darkness, while the change in saturation indicates broad weather patterns (sunny versus cloudy). The straight lines each represent one day and the yellow circular bursts represent each 30-minute pumping session. The size of each circle correlates to the quantity of milk collected. This project connect to broader cultural conversations about motherhood. As infertility rates continue to skyrocket, many women experience motherhood through a similar, clinical lens. My hope is that this project gives voice to the millions of women who have struggled to become mothers and honor the under-valued labor of motherhood.
The Shape of Your Sounds (2017 - present)
Using audio surveillance technologies provided by a commercial baby monitor, I capture my baby’s cries and translate that data into visual shapes. The sound waves loop back on themselves in a 360-degree rotation. The result is vaguely reminiscent of the shape of a flower; each burst of sound looks like a petal. The initial purpose for this project was to try to find visual patterns that could be more easily interpreted. However, I quickly realized this was a fool’s game; the visual patterns are as indiscernible as his sounds. Therefore, what remains is a visual record of a moment in time; a beautiful reminder of those sleepless nights when the world was comprised of just my son and myself.
Sleep Regression (2016 – 2017)
“Sleep Regression” is a series of intimate works that were painted in the space of nap times and record the moments I watched my son while working in my home studio. The paintings’ small size and blue palette reproduce the video format and color, mimicking the tension between the close, private space of sleep and the distance created by the act of surveillance. The effects are eerie and disturbing images of rest. Lingering in the unconscious state of sleep the baby’s body looks lifeless. Are these representations of a sleeping child or a fetus? These works are thus unusual documents of baby’s first year of life–odd surrogates for the family photo album.
The gray-scale paintings, on the other hand, reinforce the reference to the sonogram, creating layers of distance. The painting series thus portrays an interesting paradox: the increasing stylistic abstraction chronicles my catharsis after years of fertility struggles as I move further away from my past sorrows, yet the works also reflect a turn inward and becomes more specific to my body (womb) and more private. The delineated forms in black, white, and grey look like the thermal imaging of a birth–drapery resembles the uterine wall, a dark ground morphs into a vaginal opening.
Topic
abstraction
aesthetics
art
artist mother
baby
baby food
bodily transformation
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
breastfeeding advocacy
breastmilk
care
care taking
care work
caregiving
caretaking
communication
conceptual art
contemporary art
creative practice
creative practice and family life
cyborg
daily life
daily routine
daily tasks
data
data tracking
data visualization
documentation
domestic life
domesticity
early motherhood
everyday activities
exhaustion
family and career
feeding
female body
female experience
feminism
feminist
feminist art
food
food systems
gender equality
gender roles
good mother
grief
growth
guilt
healthcare
human body
infant care
invisible labor
isolation
lactation
let down reflex
loss
maternal experience
maternal healthcare
maternal time
medical care
milk
milk jug
money
mother and child
mother artist
mother guilt
mother work
mother/child relationship
motherhood
motherhood and economic context
motherhood as art practice
mothering
motherwork
mundane details
nature vs. technology
nursing
nursing mothers
parental leave
personal
personal boundaries
personal experience
personal space
pumping
record keeping
remembering
repetition
repetitive tasks
representations of motherhood
research and art
sleep deprivation
social norms
son
technology
time
unpaid labor
visualizations
women's health
women's identity
audio waves
archive
care labor
crying
data visualization
documentation
emotional space
infants and sleep
language
language development
sleep training
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
2018- “Fits and Starts,” Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018- “The Shape of Your Sounds” (solo), Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/471">2019 - "While I Was Away" (solo), Roman Susan Gallery, 1224 W. Loyola Ave. Chicago, IL</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/495">Painting at Night, Fort Houston Gallery, Nashville, TN</a>
Medium
acylic
flashe
sculpture
digital
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Title
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Tracy Marie Taylor
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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Website
<a href="https://www.whakatanemuseum.org.nz/exhibitions-and-events/mother" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.whakatanemuseum.org.nz/exhibitions-and-events/mother</a>
Curator
Sarah Hudson
Gallery
Te Kōputu - Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre
Curatorial Statement
M/other is an exhibition on contemporary artists from around New Zealand creating work about motherhood, mothering and maternal roles. Artist contributions from: Erena Baker, Leala Faleseuga, Rhonda Halliday, Turumeke Harrington, Claire Harris, Tash Helasdottir-Cole, Zoe Thompson-Moore, Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Kararaina Toi, Justine Walker
Location
The location of the interview
Whakatāne
New Zealand
Artists
Erena Baker
Leala Faleseuga
Rhonda Halliday
Turumeke Harrington
Claire Harris
Tash Helasdottir-Cole
Zoe Thompson-Moore
Jasmine Togo-Brisby
Kararaina Toi
Justine Walker
Topic
motherhood
mothering
maternal roles
artist mother
artist/mother,
artistic labor
artists with children
autonomy
binary tensions
birthday parties
bleeding
breast milk
breast pump
care labor
body
birth
contemporary art
conceptual art
IVF, mental health, miscarriage, maternal, needlework, postpartum, personal, women artists, women representation,
domestic families
feminism
handwork traditions
indigenous motherhood
infertility
intergenerational
IVF
mental health
miscarriage
maternal
needlework
postpartum
personal
women artists
women representation
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
April 20 - August 17, 2019
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M/other
Contributor
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Sarah Hudson
artist mother
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
autonomy
binary tensions
birth
birthday parties
bleeding
body
breast milk
breast pump
care labor
conceptual art
contemporary art
domestic
families
feminism
handwork traditions
Indigenous motherhood
infertility
intergenerational
IVF
maternal
maternal roles
mental health
miscarriage
motherhood
mothering
needlework
New Zealand
personal
postpartum
Whakatāne
women artists
women representation
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://komsomolfilms.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://komsomolfilms.com/</a>
Topic
childbirth
pregnancy
labor
care labor
maternal anxiety
feminism
Medium
film
video
Artist Statement
IRENE LUSZTIG is a filmmaker, visual artist, archival researcher, and amateur seamstress. Her film and video work mines old images and technologies for new meanings in order to reframe, recuperate, and reanimate forgotten and neglected histories. Often beginning with rigorous research in archives, her work brings historical materials into conversation with the present day, inviting viewers to explore historical spaces as a way to contemplate larger questions of politics, ideology, and the production of personal, collective, and national memories. Much of her work is centered on public feminism, language, and histories of women and women’s bodies, including her debut feature Reconstruction (2001), the feature length archival film essay The Motherhood Archives (2013), the ongoing web-based Worry Box Project (2011), and her newest performative documentary feature Yours in Sisterhood (2018).
Location
The location of the interview
Santa Cruz
California
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Complicated Labors</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/64" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Marternalisms - Chile</a>
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Irene Lusztig
Title
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Irene Lusztig
California
care labor
childbirth
feminism
film
labor
maternal anxiety
pregnancy
Santa Cruz
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<a href="http://ireneperez.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://ireneperez.net</a>
Topic
motherhood
learning
education
feminism
ecology
body
care labor
autonomy
mother
daughter
mothering
conversation
sexuality
teaching
birth
empowerment
politics
economics
racism
migration
fanzines
music
death
language
comic books
feminist science fiction
Medium
textile based works
works on paper
sound
Artist Statement
I use textile materials and techniques, and most recently also sound, to explore experiences, as well as to make artworks that aim to become the vehicle to create new ones. My most recent project, New Universe: Discovering Other Possibilities, was born from my interest to explore the learning processes that occur between a mother and her child. What and how we learn, when do we learn, where do we learn, and from whom do we learn are some of the ideas that I have been investigating through and for this project. New Universe presents a group of works that take as their starting point moments and experiences within the family and in particular through the child-mother relationship. From these experiences, my creations explore ideas related to discovery, invention and the unknown. Thus, there are pieces born from daily activities such as playing, time spent with family and care labor, as well as those born from conversations with other parents and research. In its entirety the project included and exhibition, a workshop and several activities during a three month period at the Textile Museum and Documentation Centre in Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain. This project is still growing.
From Between My Legs, 2019, Textile based art piece.
STATEMENT:
From Between My Legs is a work born from the experience and exploration of motherhood through the interactions of the bodies of mother and daughter. Thus, this work, framed in relation to the natural world, refers to the acquired independence of the daughter's body, to the consciously feminist mothering practice and to the sexual pleasure of the body of the mother, events all of them that have the literal or metaphorically starting point in the place between the legs of the mother.
From between my legs
a new combative and vindicating being is born
that has made me rethink my limits
and the limits of what surrounds me.
From between my legs
is born the strength to understand
the world beyond binary conceptions.
From between my legs
an invigorating pleasure is born
and it makes me feel powerful.
Seeds For Resistance, 2017- ongoing, multidisciplinary (actions, works on paper, textile works)
STATEMENT:
Multidisciplinary project that stems from the conversations I have been having with my daughter. They are conversations about favorite colors, our bodies, super-(s)heros, comic books, feminism(s), illness, politics, sexuality, clothing, economics, racism, migration, fanzines, ecology, music, death, language and many other things. In progress.
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">Extended Self: Transformations and Connections</a>
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Irene Pérez
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Irene Pérez
care labor
ecology
feminism
learning
teaching
textile
the body