Mother

Curated by Chelsea Lehmann and Zoe Freney

The chair, a symbol of support and comfort and one of control, “sit down and shut up”. I negotiate this tension by squeezing the clay through my hands. Held together by strands of a bleached cotton bedsheet, my babies and I no longer conform to ‘his’ head of the table.

Self Portrait (Mother, Son, Foetus), 2025 | Mid fire clay, bleach on cotton| 120×80×40cm

Installation | Mother Shield Forever by Lottie Emma, Dust #4 by Atong Atem and Self Portrait (Mother, Son, Foetus) by Alexia Fisher.

Installation | Self Portrait (Mother, Son, Foetus) by Alexia Fisher, Exhale, Dusty Pink and Auspicious Accumulations by Ali Noble and The Hairy Tales #2 by Jingwei Bu.

Asphyxia, 2024 | Single channel video | 00:22:46