A event held at Arnolfini on Friday 19th April. The event starts at 11:00.
images:
Janine Antoni, 2038 (2000). © Janine Antoni
Anna Grevenitis, Regard series (2015-) © Anna Grevenitis
Caroline Walker, Bottles and Pumps, 2022 Courtesy of the Artists
Launching at Arnolfini, a major group exhibition from Hayward Gallery Touring, Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood will plunge into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks, from the feminist avant-garde to the present day.
While the Madonna and Child is one of the great subjects of European art, we rarely see art about motherhood as a lived experience, in all its complexity. Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood will address this blind spot in art history, asserting the artist mother as an important – if rarely visible – cultural figure.
Featuring the work of more than sixty modern and contemporary artists, this exhibition will approach motherhood as a creative enterprise, albeit one at times tempered by ambivalence, exhaustion or grief. Acts of Creation will explore lived experience of motherhood, offering a complex account that engages with contemporary concerns about gender, caregiving and reproductive rights.
The exhibition will address diverse experiences of motherhood across three themes: Creation, which looks at conception, pregnancy, birth and nursing; Maintenance which explores motherhood and caregiving in the day-to-day; and Loss, which touches on miscarriage and involuntary childlessness, as well as reproductive rights. The heart of the exhibition is a series of revelatory self-portraits – a celebration of the artist as mother.
Acts of Creation will be accompanied by a lively programme of public events and an illustrated book published by Thames and Hudson.
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood is curated by Hettie Judah with Hayward Gallery Touring and will go onto:
Midlands Arts Centre (MAC), Birmingham: 22 June to 29 September 2024
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield: 24 October 2024 to 21 January 2025
Dundee Contemporary Arts: Spring 2025 (exact dates to be confirmed)
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Janine Antoni, 2038 (2000). © Janine Antoni
Anna Grevenitis, Regard series (2015-) © Anna Grevenitis
Caroline Walker, Bottles and Pumps, 2022 Courtesy of the Artists
Launching at Arnolfini, a major group exhibition from Hayward Gallery Touring, Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood will plunge into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks, from the feminist avant-garde to the present day.
While the Madonna and Child is one of the great subjects of European art, we rarely see art about motherhood as a lived experience, in all its complexity. Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood will address this blind spot in art history, asserting the artist mother as an important – if rarely visible – cultural figure.
Featuring the work of more than sixty modern and contemporary artists, this exhibition will approach motherhood as a creative enterprise, albeit one at times tempered by ambivalence, exhaustion or grief. Acts of Creation will explore lived experience of motherhood, offering a complex account that engages with contemporary concerns about gender, caregiving and reproductive rights.
The exhibition will address diverse experiences of motherhood across three themes: Creation, which looks at conception, pregnancy, birth and nursing; Maintenance which explores motherhood and caregiving in the day-to-day; and Loss, which touches on miscarriage and involuntary childlessness, as well as reproductive rights. The heart of the exhibition is a series of revelatory self-portraits – a celebration of the artist as mother.
Acts of Creation will be accompanied by a lively programme of public events and an illustrated book published by Thames and Hudson.
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood is curated by Hettie Judah with Hayward Gallery Touring and will go onto:
Midlands Arts Centre (MAC), Birmingham: 22 June to 29 September 2024
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield: 24 October 2024 to 21 January 2025
Dundee Contemporary Arts: Spring 2025 (exact dates to be confirmed)
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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