OF BIRTHING AND MILKING Ruri Kawanami on Leiko Ikemura at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Following her survey exhibition “Motherscape” at Albertina Modern earlier this year, Leiko Ikemura’s conception of motherhood as an act of creation outside the confines of patriarchal hierarchies and biological realities takes a new dimension in her current display at CFA in Berlin. Referencing the circular movement of the course of a day, spatially manifested in a colorful exhibition design, the sensual perception of the artist’s cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural practice is centered here. As Ruri Kawanami argues, the idiosyncrasy of her painterly style with a multitude of influences, as well as her specific understanding of motherhood, are conveyed through the work’s materiality – instead of through a fixation on essentialist terms or market-oriented tags.
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