the sense archive exhibition from May 26 – June 18th, 2023 at Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS

This Body of Work: Rendering, Reassembling, and Performing Motherworlds is an interdisciplinary exhibition that grew from self-directed Artist Residencies in Motherhood (ARIM). This Body of Work explores critical feminist performance(s) of motherhood and maternal agency through lived bodily/cellular experiences and locates the body as the initial source and archive for the labour/work of the m/other. 

Members of the sense archive are: Ruth Douthwright, Sally Morgan and myself, Jessica Winton.

Images below represent my contribution to the exhibit (five assemblages in total)

Presented by: eyelevel Gallery, Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax, and Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery.

We have created works that span photography, sculpture, sound, video, text, new media, and performance that consider themes of care, trauma, loss, lineage, identity, emotional bonds, oral/object histories, and memory.
 
We expose the labour, performance, and experience of motherhood and have allowed it to inform our work. We use a critical feminist perspective to disrupt cultural and perceptual norms. We make the work and are the work.
the sense archive employs the word “mother’ as a verb in our approach and in considering our inclusive and extended audience—an audience that includes all those who mother

CBC radio interview Le Reveil with Caroline Levesque (en francais): http://www.radio-canada.ca/util/postier/suggerer-go.asp?nID=4946552

Billie Magazine review by Delaney Ryan: https://billiemag.ca/this-body-of-work/

The Coast article by Morgan Mullin: https://www.thecoast.ca/arts-music/mothering-is-work-yes-but-this-new-exhibit-proves-it-is-art-too-30937917