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MOTHERGROUND: Dominique Rey with Madeleine & Auguste Coar presents the work of Franco-Manitoban artist Dominique Rey and offers one of Canada’s first sustained reflections on the complexity of motherhood.
Created in collaboration with Rey’s children, Madeleine and Auguste Coar, the exhibition unfolds in three thematic chapters. Each chapter reveals a different period in the artist’s ongoing study of the emotional terrain and cultural expectations that shape maternal experience. Through photographs, photo-collages, human-scale sculptures, and video installations, the exhibition surrounds us with scenes that evoke both the intimacy and universality of motherhood.
Rey approaches artistic practice, fertility, and maternity as intertwined forms of creative labour, together examining how ordinary gestures between mother and child can carry profound meaning. MOTHERGROUND considers the many transformations that accompany early motherhood: the shift between balance and imbalance, and the movement between intense emotional states that define this stage of life.
Motherground is curated by Dr. Riva Symko, Head of Collections & Exhibitions at WAG-Qaumajuq in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
