Maternal Poetics

Maternal Poetics brings together practices spanning painting, sculpture, textile, installation, and sound to explore how maternal experience shapes artistic production through labour, care, transformation, memory, and embodied knowledge. Rather than positioning motherhood as a fixed identity or singular role, the exhibition approaches it as a generative and relational force, one that continually reshapes how we understand ourselves in relation to others, to inherited histories, and to the material world. Across the exhibition, acts of making become inseparable from acts of holding, transmitting, repairing, and reimagining.

Central to the exhibition is an attention to the space that forms between mother and child, between self and other, between what is inherited and what is made anew. This space is not fixed or singular, but continually shaped through relation, dependence, and change. A child depends on a mother, yet also participates in her becoming. Maternal Poetics stays with this in‑between, seeking forms that can hold experiences and relations that the dominant languages of art and theory have often struggled to contain.

Including works by Charmaine Beneyto, Usoa García Sagüés, Nahoko Komatsu O, Anjalee Malan, and Manyi Takor. Curated by Olivia Suubi Andrews and Charmaine Beneyto.