Are You My Mother?
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Dunlop Art Gallery 2311 12 Ave (PO Box 2311), Regina, Saskatchewan S4P 3Z5
Michèle Pearson Clarke, "Parade of Champions (detail)," 2015
3-channel HD video installation with sound. Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Sandra Brewster Artist Talk (ASL interpreted) and reception, Friday, January 18th, 6:00 pm.
Heather Benning, Sandra Brewster, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Michèle Pearson Clarke, and Emilie Renier-Serri
Whether the relationships are close, strained, or absent, being parented (or disconnected from caregivers) is a universal experience. Are You My Mother? considers what is shared about the experience of being raised, while underscoring the less universal, more specific circumstances that shape how we feel about our caregivers – feelings of warmth and love, and in the case of grief, loss and gratitude. The selected artists also explore thoughts and perceptions around how we view our caregivers: what we know and don’t know about them as people outside their identity as caregivers, and what we may never understand about the people who parent (or are meant to raise) us. The exhibition’s examination of an aesthetics of caring extends to the land and other forms of kinship: people and places beyond bloodlines that provide other kinds of care.