Bruno Baptistelli (b. 1985, São Paulo, Brazil) is a visual artist whose work examines the
relationships between people and the spaces they occupy. He is interested in how spaces and the elements that compose them – objects, architecture, society, language – can modify these relationships. Bruno shot mae (2020) during the pandemic using a mobile phone as a way of connecting to his mum on his birthday.
Lize Bartelli (b. 1984, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a painter who lives and works between London and Los Angeles. Her main subjects are women and femininity including notions around the structure of society, and existential and philosophical issues. Her series The Mothers features dozens of images of pregnant women who display their nude bodies unashamedly, often staring at the spectator directly. These paintings seek to de-fetishize maternity by subverting values and ideas that are deeply ingrained in Western societies on what types of roles a woman must assume once she becomes a mother.
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Ingrid Berthon-Moine (b. 1975, Grenoble, France) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist based in London, whose work examines the construction of identity and its behavioural impact on society. In her undaunted video Ma (2009), Berthon-Moine confronts the idea of maternal failing. The artist will further explore the emotional exhaustion and daily challenges that come with being a mother in her humorous PVC drawings.
Magda Bielesz (b. 1977, Warsaw, Poland) works with painting, installation, objects, drawing and film, as well as artistic and social projects in urban spaces. Bielesz sees motherhood as an opportunity to relive her own childhood alongside her son who plays an active part in her performances. At the exhibition opening, the artist and her child will draw together as part of a collaborative performance.
Joey Bryniarska (b. 1981, Swindon, UK) is a British/Polish artist based in London working mainly with text, photography and installation. Her work looks at how narratives of memory, censorship, bodily autonomy, and intimacy are constructed through an entanglement with technology. yeah no (2022) is based on early conversations with her son, when he was just learning how to speak. It draws parallels with the artist’s self-reflexive approach, questioning exchanges of power, moments of verbal exchange where power is undecided; as well as how and why art is produced, and for whom.
Rose Davey (b. 1984, London, UK) is an artist and writer living in London. Since completing her MFA in Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2010, Rose has returned each year to deliver art history lectures to Graduate Painting students.
Hoa Dung Clerget (b. 1985, Paris, France) lives and works in the UK. Hoa Dung explores the hybrid environment where traditions coexist in the homes of diaspora families. In her practice Dung Clerget chooses domestic objects that she transforms by economy of means. These mundane objects, such as the brooms in Broom Lady (2022), create a bridge between the different places that have influenced her work (Vietnam, France and Kupfer’s gallery) and the different people encountering the objects. Dung Clerget will also present Please Touch (2022), a set of sculptural breasts reflecting on the taboo topic of breastfeeding.
Thalita Hamaoui (b. 1981, São Paulo, Brazil) is a visual artist and painter, whose paintings on fabric introduce imagined landscapes that suggest different states of mind and ancestral symbologies, which either remain on the surface or disappear underneath layers of density, time, figuration and colour.
Maria Konder (b.1982, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a London-based multidisciplinary artist, whose practice includes painting, sculpture, performance and video. Konder’s installation The Witch Wheel (2022) and her performance The Full Moon (2022) will use female symbols and historical references to reflect on everyday rituals.
Penelope Kupfer (b. 1974, Backnang, Germany) is a visual artist whose practice focuses on issues of identity, selfhood and the family. She will be showing One (2022), a painting gestated during the process of curating the present show.
Laima Leyton (b. 1977, São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian artist currently based in London. Her practice fuses music, performance and domestication. Sound is used as a tool to tell unique stories that include elements of audience interaction. Leyton will perform The Birth of The Disco Ball (2020), in collaboration with performance artist Zara Truss Giles, which incorporates sound and light to domestic objects and actions, creating a dreamy meditative atmosphere, reflecting on the dichotomy between mother and performer, which she calls the ‘performother’.
Harriette Meynell (b.1969, Oxford, UK) is a London-based multidisciplinary artist using predominantly sound, installation, drawing and photography. Her work focuses on façades, thresholds and barriers – both real and metaphorical, private and public. For Meynell, nothing is unconditional, not even maternal love. Playing House (redacted) (2021) forefronts some of the unspoken thoughts, desires and claustrophobic feelings of female roles in the home. The kitchen installation Domestic Strata (2022) examines the weight and volume of life behind closed doors by revealing the edges of an ongoing diary she started at the age of 50.
LaTosha Monique (b. 1981, Columbus, USA) is a visual artist working with sculpture, painting and performance. She utilises quilting techniques passed down between generations of women in her family, passing down stories and healing generational trauma. Her large-scale hanging tapestry – Bearing Word (2022) – is a communion between the ancestral African mother spirit and herself. It consists of a purple, white, and black three-striped flag, with the words “I AM THE DREAM AND VOICE OF MY ANCESTORS” applied to its surface.
Willy Nabi (b. 1983, Talence, France) is a London-based artist working with sculpture and painting. His life-size sculptures play with the term ‘mummy’, both as a reference to the loss of his mother at a young age, and to his Egyptian heritage. His work revolves around the theme of protection, and fictional ways of keeping a mummy alive through the poetic, the absurd, and the comic.
Lucia Pizzani (b. 1975, Caracas, Venezuela) lives and works in London. A visual artist whose practice involves the body and the self always informed by materiality. She examines the interrelationship between the narratives of women in history and processes of metamorphosis in the natural world. Arawaka (2022) consists of a red clay ceramic wall piece, in the shape of both a vagina and a seed, placed against an image of the Venus of Tacarigua. She uses universal symbology while also going back in time to historical Latin American cultures, providing new discourse and perspectives.
Mogli Saura (b. 1987, Pindorama, Brazil) is an experimental artist working with performance, music, singing and dancing. Her work focuses on urban space interventions, exploring the thresholds between art and life, madness and crime, particularly in relation to race, gender and class. The Skin is the Deepest (2022) is a tender, intimate dialogue between a mother and a transitioning daughter.
Sarah Kate Wilson (b.1982, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands) is a London-based artist working with painting, drawing, print, costume, performance and tapestry. Wilson will stage a performance that forefronts the invisible labour of mothering. Performers equipped with iPhones will make visible this workload, tracking and deciphering body language, capturing the inaudible and supporting the needs of others.
