Is something missing ?
Curatorship : mother
I AM AFRAID OF SILENCE
I AM AFRAID OF THE DARK
I AM AFRAID TO FALL DOWN
I AM AFRAID OF INSOMNIA
I AM AFRAID OF EMPTINESS IS SOMETHING MISSING?
YES, SOMETHING IS MISSING AND WILL ALWAYS BE MISSING
THE EXPERIENCE OF EMPTINESS TO MISS WHAT ARE YOU MISSING? NOTHING I AM IMPERFECT
BUT I AM LACKING NOTHING.
MAYBE SOMETHING IS MISSING
BUT I DO NOT KNOW AND THEREFORE DO NOT SUFFER.
EMPTY STOMACH
EMPTY HOUSE
EMPTY BOTTLE
THE FALLING INTO A VACCUM SIGNALS THE ABANDONMENT OF THE MOTHER.
Louise Bourgeois, I am afraid, (2009)
Both artists and curators, Emma Passera and Violette Wood, founders of the MOTHER collective, have brought together 21 artists for an exhibition that invites us to experience the porosity between intimate and public space. In English, there is a nuance between house and home that marks the difference between the physical domestic space and the mental, intimate domestic space where we feel at home. This house exhibition therefore aims to take you on an introspective journey around the representation of habitat. Inspired by Judy Chicago and Myriam Shapiro's Womanhouse, Emma Passera and Violette Wood have selected, in a feminine and feminist approach, works by artists from different generations. Each of the creations participates in the construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of a utopian house, reflecting the questions that run through their proposal. "IS SOMETHING MISSING?" " is the question that accompanies you throughout the exhibition, from the parents' bedroom to the bathroom, the office, and even the garden. For their first exhibition in an institution, Emma Passera and Violette Wood have recreated a family of artists who, together, offer open-ended answers, like so many registers of a disrupted interiority.
Fabien Danesi, Emma Passera, and Violette Wood
