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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.palcik.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.palcik.com</a>
Medium
film
Location
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Dublin
Ireland
Artist Statement
Bara would like other parents to identify with the impact that children can have on their lives or offer would-be parents a unique insight into an experience of first-time parenting. Her work is also a love letter of sorts to her main inspiration, her son, as the work she creates is not only about him but for him.
The short film “Matyas” is inspired by a Czech fairy tale “Otesanek” written by Karel Jaromir Erben. The Czech folk tale from the nineteenth century talks about a living, constantly hungry, wooden log which eats its mother and its father and then continues eating other people. The end of this enormous eating is brought about by an old lady working in the fields who cuts through its wooden stomach and all the people jump out alive.
“Matyas”, the story of the all-consuming nature of maternal love, talks about a single mother who is not unhappy but very tired. The mother struggles with her constantly hungry baby who, in an addition to the original folk tale, never sleeps.
The mother grows desperate as she tries to feed the baby with everything she can find in their home. Her milk is not enough, nor is porridge, fruit or vegetables. She gives him pork and chicken meat but nothing helps. Nothing she can find fills the baby, and he constantly cries and doesn’t sleep. Finally, after over 300 sleepless nights, the mother finds a solution to this constantly growing hunger. She takes a long shower and prepares herself: she shaves her legs and armpits, she washes her hair, she brushes her teeth, all so she can be clean and ready for her baby. She has, once and for all, realised how to fulfil her baby’s insatiable hunger.
Topic
single mother
motherhood
child
sleep
fairytale
tired
love
food
hunger
reality
consume
parent
life
feeding
milk
maternal
nap
baby
woman
Exhibitions
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“Matyas” was selected for the Dublin Feminist Film Festival 2018, Desert Edge Global Film Festival in India 2018 and Mother Art Prize in London 2019.
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Title
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Bara Palcik
baby
child
feeding
film
hunger
maternal
milk
motherhood
nap
single mother
woman
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="sarahdolanart.com">sarahdolanart.com</a>
Topic
nursing
sleep
naptime
breastfeeding
body
maternal body
c-section
Medium
fibers
printmaking
recycled materials
Artist Statement
In the second year following the birth of my daughter I began an artist residency in motherhood. For one year I made work during my daughter’s naptime. I created many bodies of work during my residency, using a variety of materials and processes. My works explore multiple aspects of motherhood including birth, the postpartum body, breastfeeding, and objects used for caretaking and play.
The Tender Objects series consists of small, pink, soft sculptures. These works are assembled from cut up pieces of a raincoat, which is meant to shield the body, but rendered useless to protect the body once severed. These pieces contemplate the defenselessness and many unknowns of the insides of our bodies.
Through the Motherbody series, I use materials from clothing that no longer fits my postpartum body. Each soft sculpture imagines some part of me, not unlike my daughters many stuffed animals, as a created comfort item. Filled with stuffing from a pregnancy pillow, they imitate plush objects that would soothe a child while simultaneously examining the immense changes and vulnerability of the body during and after pregnancy.
In the Motherbody Drawings series I draw the motherbody pieces, turning them into something diverging from the comfort item the mother body is perceived to be in our culture. While the drawings are still perceived as soft, they transform the physicality of the sculptures to sensuous and blossoming unknowns. These drawings examine the dichotomy of the mother figure, finding the tender with the intimate, and not separating the two.
The Nursing Pad series explores the enormous amounts of time and labor that are given to feeding an infant. Through the repetitive, labored motion of the embroidery process, I recall the repetition of the breastfeeding process and the sucking motion of the infant. Each piece is labored over. Some carry smaller amounts of embroidery, a recollection of the earliest days when my milk was meager and some are saturated with embroidery, a reconstruction of the soaking of the very same pads with my own milk.
Location
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Alexandria
Virginia
USA
Exhibitions
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<a href="https://artistparentindex.com/items/show/436" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Of Printbearing Age, 2019</a><br /><br /><a href="https://artistparentindex.com/items/show/523" target="_blank" rel="noopener">motHER/child, June-Aug 2020</a>
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Sarah Dolan
Title
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Sarah Dolan
body
breastfeeding
fiber
nap
naptime
nursing
printmaking
recycled material