Stockroom Kyneton, project space
20 March / 02 May 2021

CLAUDIA PHARÈS
Shift Work

Shift Work is about acknowledging the invisible labour entailed in raising children. Mothering is a practice just as art is as it involves critical thinking. It includes nurturance, protection, and training of the children. There is a prevailing lack of recognition surrounding what it means to be a mother today. Rising beyond the myth of the good mother, the patriarchal construct of motherhood is challenged to make a place for real motherhood. Being a mother is complex and multifaceted and cannot be defined through an essentialist lens.

Shift Work extends beyond the private/domestic nature associated with child-rearing. It reflects intersectional feminist ideologies of caring in light of the ongoing health and socio-political issues.

Claudia Pharès is French-Canadian of Vietnamese-Egyptian descent based in Naarm (Melbourne).

Her art practice includes photography, sculpture, installation, performance and video and is framed around autobiographical events that have challenged her sense of control.

Becoming a mother is such an event. While using matricentric feminism, she seeks to expand her roles and responsibilities as an artist/mother.

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