Māter

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Three curators and six artists explore the term Māter within its sociopolitical, historical and contemporary context in order to create a travelling exhibition between two countries that seem to have very little in common, in places with akin contexts. The exhibition will be presented at the National Archives of Malta (in Rabat), and at the Gardens of the Maternity (Barcelona), base, among others, of the Historical Archive of the Barcelona Provincial Council, thus initiating a bilateral conversation related to the temporality of knowledge, the politics of religion and alternative forms of mothering.

(The) analysis of sexuality, procreation, and mothering has been at the center of feminist theory and women's history. In particular, feminists have uncovered and denounced the strategies and the violence by means of which male-centered systems of exploitation have attempted to discipline and appropriate the female body, demonstrating that women's bodies have been the main targets, the privileged sites, for the deployment of power techniques and power-relations” - Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch (2004)