Mothering Myths: An ABC of Art, Birth and Care contemporary Keetje Mans

Keetje Mans

engaged collectives reflect on the organisation of different political issues: from anti-capitalist and student struggles

researcher Fine Art 2002–2003

and the uselessness of Chirac

is part of the Archive Furkablick Furkart and the collection of the Swiss National Library and has been exhibited at the Sandra Gering Gallery in New York

Mothering Myths: An ABC of Art, Birth and Care contemporary Keetje MansMotherhood is a theme that stands at the core of life, but has nevertheless been kept in the private sphere for a long time, haunted by clichs, stigmas and myths. Motherhood has always been seen as trivial, not as a subject for real art. At the same time, artists with a womb have faced the clich that they had to decide between making art or having a child, as both would take up all the mothers time and energy. Mothering Myths unravels these clichs,