The Mother & The Weaver: Art from the Ursula Hauser Collection
The Mother & The Weaver takes the unseen mother, a central part of The Foundling Museum鈥檚 story, as a point of departure to explore complex ideas around motherhood, childhood, love, loss, sexuality and identity. Occupying the whole museum, this landmark exhibition will show over 40 works from the Ursula Hauser Collection, all by women artists, in conversation with historic objects and works of art from the Foundling Museum鈥檚 collection.
The exhibition presents modern and contemporary works of art in a variety of media, including painting, textiles, sculpture, video and works on paper.
Maternal presence or absence, and the complex emotions that each arouses, informs many of the works in the exhibition. Others are more suggestive, hinting at complex histories of displacement and fractured identity. Themes and ideas around what it means to be a 鈥榞ood鈥� mother or woman, explored in the contemporary works, take on new and forceful meanings in the context of the Foundling Museum.
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The Mother & The Weaver takes the unseen mother, a central part of The Foundling Museum鈥檚 story, as a point of departure to explore complex ideas around motherhood, childhood, love, loss, sexuality and identity. Occupying the whole museum, this landmark exhibition will show over 40 works from the Ursula Hauser Collection, all by women artists, in conversation with historic objects and works of art from the Foundling Museum鈥檚 collection.
The exhibition presents modern and contemporary works of art in a variety of media, including painting, textiles, sculpture, video and works on paper.
Maternal presence or absence, and the complex emotions that each arouses, informs many of the works in the exhibition. Others are more suggestive, hinting at complex histories of displacement and fractured identity. Themes and ideas around what it means to be a 鈥榞ood鈥� mother or woman, explored in the contemporary works, take on new and forceful meanings in the context of the Foundling Museum.
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鈥楾he Mother & The Weaver鈥� at the Foundling Museum, London, looks at the complex role of the mother in art from the Ursula Hauser Collection
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