Ruth Bonneville / Free Press – Domestic Frieze wrestles with the moments when mother and child’s bodies merge and pull apart, morphing into altered shapes.
Winnipeg Free Press: Play and unpredictability, Artist-mother collaborates with children
[School of Art Associate Professor Dominique Rey opens solo exhibition MOTHERGROUND at WAG-Qaumajuq]
“Mothers are often not featured in family photos.
They are the takers of the photos, the documentarians of their children’s lives. In Victorian-era photographs of toddlers, there are invisible mothers, propping up their children and keeping them still while disguised as pieces of furniture — or daubed out in black paint post-production — in what is now known as the hidden mother phenomenon.
Eight years ago, when Franco-Manitoban contemporary artist Dominique Rey was in Europe for an artist residency, her husband captured an indelible image of her playing with their daughter, Madeleine Coar, who was one and a half at the time.
They were in a dark tunnel in Brussels, golden-hour sunlight streaming in behind them, creating a backlit effect. But while both mother and daughter were cast as shadowy figures, Rey wasn’t a hidden mother. In that moment, she felt seen.” — Jen Zoratti, Winnipeg Free Press
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MOTHERGROUND
By Dominique Rey with Madeleine and Auguste Coar
Opening Celebration: October 11, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
WAG-Qaumajuq
Free Admission
On view until March 31, 2025