BY TABITHA SOREN

ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINTS

INSTALLATION OF 5 DOUBLE SIDED SHEETS; EDITION OF 3

54”W X 74”H

Tabitha Soren’s THE MIND BABY PROBLEM is a new series of five self-portraits of the artist as a nursing mother, printed on coated cotton bedsheets, hung in the manner of a laundry line, whose palette follows the day from dawn to dusk. Each work, which is at once crisply photographic and gracefully sculptural, makes public the intimate dyad of mother and child, which is the root of our highly social species.

At a time when artificial intelligence and global political regression pose the question “what does it mean to be human?” Soren’s series answers with images of the sleep deprivation, emotional turbulence and physically draining rollercoaster that is unconditional love.

Using a suspended camera to capture the aerial view of an infant’s first three months of life, these images and video are a multi-layered, visual compendium. The project is not meant to capture a singular moment of care or tenderness, but instead aims to share the blur of cumulative, almost unregistered days of hazy, repetitive gestures of newborn parenting life.

 Motherload is another example of Soren’s interest in impediments to the humanistic encounter. She intentionally mars the visual field with an accumulated experience, which questions what in our lives impairs our ability to really see.

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