Participants
Aline Motta, Athena Farrokhzad, Basma Al-Sharif, Elise Storsveen, Gitte Dæhlin, Maritea Dæhlin, Lisbeth Dæhlin, Guttormsgaards arkiv, Hannah Ryggen, Käthe Kollwitz, Louise Bourgeois, Marin Shamov, Nils Aas, Sheba Chhachhi and Sonja Jabbar, Thora Dolven Balke, Veslemøy Lilleengen and unknown authors.
Curators: Yaniya Mikhalina and Marianne Zamecznik
Project manager: Lisa Størseth Pettersen
At first glance, Passing Motherhood might seem to revolve around a single, contained theme: the experience of mothering. Yet from the very beginning, the exhibition demonstrates how motherhood, in all its sensible and political dimensions, stretches far beyond the individual plane — reaching into questions of land and belonging, war and displacement, memory and inheritance, and the institutional frameworks surrounding it. The artworks, archival materials, testimonies and historical objects assembled in the context of the exhibition underscore the vast network in which “motherhood” is ceaselessly created, contested, and transferred — across bodies, geographies, and generations. In this polyphonic landscape, we recognize the threads — or routes — with which the exhibition can be experienced. The act of mapping is an invitation to the creation of a route of one’s own, as it is the viewer’s experience that gives birth to the new relationships between the works.
