「Life Is Art Is Motherhood Is Art 」展覧会
July 21日 - July 26日
CRSでは、Daniela Kostova（ブルガリア）、Aline Müller（ブラジル）、Quynh “Alex” Nguyễn（ベトナム）、Katie Heller Saltounト（アメリカ）、Satomi Shirai・白井里実（日本）の母である5人のアーティストによる展覧会「Life Is Art Is Motherhood Is Art」を開催します。CRSの共同設立者であるクリストファー・ペルハムのキュレーションによるこの展覧会は、2025年7月21日から26日までニューヨークのTenri Cultural Instituteで開催されます。
この展覧会では、世界中の母親アーティストによる心を動かす作品を紹介し、母性とアート制作の深い結びつきを探ります。さまざまな写真や2D作品を通して、働く母親アーティストが抱える課題を考え、母性や子育てそのものが創造的な行為であり、アートと切り離せない大切なものとして、愛情と尊敬、支援が必要だと感じていただければと思います。
展覧会スケジュール
Monday, July 21 – July 26, 2025 (closed July 25)
Mon – Thu 12 – 6 pm, Sat 12 – 3 pm
TENRI GALLERY 所在地
Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, 43A W 13th St, New York, NY 10011
212.645.2800
上記のギャラリー時間に加え、展覧会に関連して開催されるいくつかのレセプションやサロンでも展示をご覧いただけます。
July 21 7 pm
オープニングレセプション＆アーティストサロン
アーティストのEunbi Kim（キム・ウンビ）によるライブ音楽＋Q&A
July 23 7pm
アーティストサロン
アーティストのGoussy CelestinとAmma Whattによるライブ音楽＋アーティストおよび「This Is a Movement」共同創設者Niama Safia SandyとのQ&A
July 24 7 pm
アーティストサロン
アーティストの Layale Chaker（バイオリン）とMaeve Gilchrist （ハープ）によるライブ音楽＋Q&A
July 26 3 pm ドアオープン / 3:30 pm プログラムスタート
クロージングレセプション＆アーティストサロン
Sita Chay（バイオリン）とRema Hasumi（キーボード）によるライブ音楽＋展覧会アーティストとのQ&A＋作家でアーティストのLe Ly Hayslipによる「ベトナム戦争から学ばれなかった教訓」についてのトーク
ドリンクはLê Phin Vietnamese cafe提供
— Jeffrey Boloten＆Juliet Hacking『How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents)』序文
— Jeffrey Boloten＆Juliet Hacking『How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents)』序文
— Catherine Rickets,『Artist/Mother Podcast: 160: The World Needs Art that Only Mothers Can Make with Catherine Ricketts』2024年11月4日
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Stuck by Daniela Kostova
Daniela Kostova is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans photography, installation, video, and performance. She explores themes of geography, cultural identity, and the complexities of translation and communication across borders. Her projects have been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Queens Museum of Art, Kunsthalle Wien, Centre d’Art Contemporain (Geneva), and Kunsthalle Fridericianum (Kassel), among others. In 2019, she created one of Europe’s largest public art installations, Future Dreaming, covering Vienna’s Ringturm building.
Kostova has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Unlimited Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art and residencies at A.I.R. Gallery (NYC), ZK/U Berlin, and ArtsLink at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She has also contributed as a curator, notably leading the BioArt Initiative at RPI, where she taught digital imaging. Her work has been featured in major publications such as The New York Times, Brooklyn Rail, and Art in America. Now based in New York City, she has served as Director of Curatorial Projects at Radiator Gallery, Artist Mentor at NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Program and Board Member of CEC Artslink.
Photo by Aline Müller
Photographer Aline Müller, born in the Brazilian Amazon and now working between Rio and New York, brings an elemental understanding of nature’s power to her intimate portraits of women. In her series curated for Life is Art Motherhood is Art, she captures mothers at different stages of their journey through evocative, almost surreal photographs that reveal the mystical within the everyday of a mother.
Müller’s mothers emerge water-soaked from rivers, beaches, and showers with goddess-like splendor. They inhabit moments of joyous presence captured in delicate close-ups that refuse to hide or pose, but rather document dreamlike moments of maternal reality.
With her generous and almost metaphysical gaze, Aline has the uncanny ability to depict what photography often editorializes out of women’s lives: fluids, curves, small gestures, and all that seems small and menial in life, yet speaks volumes to the internal world of women.
Photo by Alex Nguyễn
Quỳnh “Alex” Nguyễn is a writer, photographer, and independent cultural practitioner based in Central Vietnam. Her interdisciplinary approach, spanning journalism, interviews, photography, artistic programs, and nurturing of daily life itself, stems from a desire to explore alternative narratives rather than accepting the mainstream, deemed self-evident. She believes that the interpretations we hear profoundly shape our beliefs and responses to life’s issues. Furthermore, the challenges faced by modern society are inherently interconnected as consequences of the many problems layered atop one another. Through flexible artistic forms, she seeks to expand the possibilities of alternative narratives, guiding those around her and her readers to explore new dimensions of contemporary issues.
https://alexnguyen.contently.com
Studio Interruptions by Katie Heller Saltoun
Katie Heller Saltoun is a visual artist based in DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York. Her work primarily utilizes oil paint, ink, photographic collages, and woodcut printing to explore the multifaceted experiences of motherhood and caregiving. Saltoun captures the humor, frustration, monotony, and profound love inherent in caregiving, drawing inspiration from her own life and the diverse narratives of mothers and caretakers she encounters. Her compositions often depict dynamic scenes of energy and chaos, as well as repetitive imagery such as refrigerator shelves, spice racks, and rows of snacks, reflecting the repetitive yet vital tasks of domestic life.
Saltoun holds a BFA from the University of Michigan, an MA from Columbia University, and an MFA from Pratt Institute. Her recent exhibition, “Bifocal: Motherhood and Creativity,” was held at the Elza Kayal Gallery in Tribeca, New York. This multidisciplinary show explored the intricate interplay between creativity and motherhood, highlighting the often-overlooked experiences of artists who navigate both roles. Additionally, her work was featured in The American Scholar magazine in an article titled “Tenderness and Grit.”
Saltoun continues to create and exhibit work that resonates with audiences, offering a profound and authentic portrayal of the complexities inherent in caregiving and domestic life. For more information and to view her portfolio, please visit her website at www.katiehellersaltoun.com.
https://www.katiehellersaltoun.com/
Photo by Satomi Shirai
Satomi Shirai playfully explores themes of cultural identity, feminism, motherhood, and the evolving meaning of home, both in the context of migration and as a universal psycho-spiritual experience. Her photographs, often set in domestic spaces, reveal the quiet tensions between order and chaos, belonging and estrangement, the visible and the unseen.
Shirai’s work has been exhibited widely, including at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Her photographs are held in the collections of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (K’MoPA).
After earning a Full-Time Certificate from the International Center of Photography in 2007 and an MFA from Hunter College (CUNY) in 2010, Shirai lived and worked in New York City for over a decade. In 2015, she returned to Japan to raise her daughter and now lives and works in Tokyo and Chiba Prefecture. Though she has exhibited less frequently since her return, she continues to create new work, often in collaboration with her daughter.