Future teachers and their vision of motherhood

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Last days. The Molina de Segura ECAJ hosts a photo exhibition created by UMU Education students, supervised by the artist Rocío Kunst

Because “there are many mothers and not all of them have broth in the fridge”, as the artist Rocío Kunst says regarding the famous song ‘Ay mama’ by Rigoberta Bandini, it can be seen in the exhibition space of the Espacio until June 1. de Molina de Segura Youth Creation (ECAJ) ‘Mom, mother, mother. A polyhedral vision of motherhood’. The photographic exhibition – an embroidery frame is also included – is the result of the Research and Artistic Creation workshop of the Faculty of Education of the University of Murcia, led by the photographer and associate professor at UMU Rocío Marín, known artistically as Rocío Kunst.

«When we started the course, I asked my students, most of them women, about their artistic references and actually it was Picasso, Miró and Dalí. At most a woman: Frida Kahlo’, says the teacher. “That perception had to be changed and the artists had to be put on the map, so I gave each group a creator’s name and they started researching their work,” she explains. This first phase of the activity gave rise to the germ of the exhibition, based on recreations, using photography as a technique, of various works. “I realized that what the women they surveyed and the primary school children, future students of these student teachers, had in common was motherhood,” he says. And so a project was born aimed at broadening the concept of motherhood and the different ways of expressing it, because “there isn’t one, real story,” says Kunst.

In this way, children are supposed to learn different ways of being a mother. “There were discussions in class. We remember that horrendous ad by El Corte Inglés with the slogan ‘97% delivered’. 3% selfishness. 0% complaints. 100% mother’, or also how they made us copy sentences at school, such as a dictation, such as ‘My mother spoils me’. Well, not all mothers are like that,” laments the photographer, who remembers Japanese maker Yayoi Kusama, one of those who studied in this project: “Her mother didn’t want her to become an artist and beat her. His seizures led to nervous breakdowns and he tried to heal himself by turning fear into paintings. Four of the students have worked with the signature moles from works such as ‘The Destruction Chamber’.

In this discussion of motherhood from different perspectives, the participants approach the vision of Paula Rego, who in her work ‘Triptych’ focuses on clandestine abortion; also that of Paula Bonet, who has tried to break the taboos on spontaneous abortions.

“The expressionist painter Mary Cassatt was never a mother, but in her paintings she always dealt with themes related to motherhood,” says Kunst of another example on display in the exhibition, a version of the painting ‘Mother and child’.

“I didn’t expect that faking a pregnancy would be so taboo,” said Amalia Ulman after the controversy caused by her performative work ‘Privilege’, in which she created fictional stories on social networks, questioning the construction of personality. and the virtual itself.

“Pregnancy is a very important part of life and is neglected. I consider it a perfectly legitimate subject and people have never, out of false modesty or cowardice, have shown it,” said American Alice Neel, a radical artist and great defender of social justice and human dignity. In ‘Nancy and Olivia’ he portrayed a woman and her offspring.

“It is a crime to be a woman and to have talent,” assured Mexican María Izquierdo, who built a long career at a time when the artistic field did not offer many opportunities for women. In 1944 he painted ‘Proletarian Mother’. Austrian photographer and painter Birgit Jürgenssen, a benchmark in the feminist avant-garde of the 1970s, also reflected on the role of women in art.

Frida Kahlo, Anna María Maiolino, Dorothea Tanning, María Blanchard, Tamara de Lempika, Bárbara Traver, Hannah Wilke, Judy Chicago, Vivian Maier, Nina Chanel, Vanessa Bell, Paulina Cuarón, Geta Brâtescu, Dorothea Lange, Lygia Clark, Shirin Neshat and Dotty Attie are the rest of the artists whose works are covered in the show.

Source: La Verdad

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