Ana Alvarez-Errecalde (Barcelona, Spain) Birth of my Daughter (2005) Analogue colour photography ARTIST STATEMENT: “Themes that are inspired by my personal experiences such as vital cycles, birth, motherhood, illness, immigration, aging and death are found throughout my body of work. …..
PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Fiammetta Horvat (UK/France) Mystery Dough (2014) Stop Motion Video Performance ARTIST STATEMENT: “Seven years ago I fell pregnant and inevitably the transformation of my body began. I experienced motherhood as the ultimate transformation and birth …..
PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Elizabeth Wurst (Germany/Peru) Super Pregnant Gangsta Bitch (2015) and Push & Pull (2016) Video Performance ARTIST STATEMENT: “Super Pregnant Gangsta Bitch shows me performing in my ninth month of pregnancy to a medley of pop …..
BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen (Denmark) Vagina Eating Husband (2015/16) Short Film ARTIST STATEMENT: “This work deals with issues concerning pregnancy, reproduction and parenthood in a grotesque and mythological way. The text works as the voice …..
BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Magdalena Blom (Sweden) A Child/Ett Barn (2015/16) Short Film ARTIST STATEMENT: “A Child is a short film investigating the dual aspect of the state of the foetus being pure and unaffected yet easily impressionable. …..
BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Jana Kasalová (Czech Republic, Prague) State (2012) Short Film ARTIST STATEMENT: “When I lived in Madrid, I lived just a few blocks from the Prado. There I came upon a particular image of the …..
PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Csilla Nagy and Gábor Kasza (Hungary, Budapest) Birth & ReBirth by Cipolla Collectiva (2013) Video of a one-off ritual performance ARTIST STATEMENT: “In April 2013 I re-collaborated with photographer Gábor Kasza to create an image …..
Sonia E Barrett (Germany, Bavaria) Run (2013) Preformance sculpture (latex, milk, thread, wood, plastic skirting board, roofing nails), 2min Artist Statement: Sonia Barrett’s work is an intervention in furnished lives and offers new ways to think about subordination, privilege and …..