My artwork, a ten-meter-long painterly montage, addresses the nuanced tension of simultaneously navigating motherhood and an artistic career.
My role was to function as a vessel for a myriad of experiences, with the acknowledgement of the impossibility of encapsulating the entirety of maternal multiplicities. Instead, the focus remained on those experiences directly lived, observed in my family, or witnessed by me.
At the first encounter with the public on Kulturhus Bergsjön, Göteborg, this media expression served its purpose of opening conversations on topics such as motherhood, abortions, generational trauma, generations of mothers, parenting, religion, etc.
In the gallery below there are documentations of the words people left written on stones that were provided, or on the Buddha Board where they wrote them with water and dried, as a testimony to the things we feel inside but have no safe space to share, talk or discuss.
This first event informs my research and stands to ask now for its second encounter with the public, how can we give a voice to the children, the once being mothered on this topic?
