Videos
2024
Keep Going
Exhibition 2024
I dwell in Possibility, Losange gallery, Brussels, Belgium
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Keep Going, video 4'27", 2024
For this project, a first line of thought focuses on the research of representation of childbirth in art history. In Western art, nativity scenes are abundant, but not representations of childbirth. In nativity scenes, the painters' perspective is influenced by theological thought that denaturalized birth and the image of motherhood. However, in pre-Columbian cultures in Central and South America, the moment of birth is represented, particularly in sculptures. Twentieth-century and contemporary women artists have explored this theme in relation to the issues in their works. Thus Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois, Rineke Dijkstra, Miriam Cahn, among others, look into this subject and offer images of it. I then decided to watch for the first time the video recording of my eldest daughter's birth, a video that has accompanied me for twenty years, and to create a project with it.
My intention is to honor the community of women - midwifes - that helped and encouraged me during delivery and to express the power of life and its transformation, but not only in relation to motherhood, but also in any act of creation. Making this video has brought to light the issue of the impact of motherhood on my artistic career, and that of women artists in general, which I think is still dominated by a patriarchal way of producing and circulating works, even if things are changing.
