HOME AFFAIRS COLLECTIVE
Home Affair’s collective employs a multidisciplinary approach to art making that focuses on issues of identity, communities, and territories. We are particularly interested in art practices that engage resistance and healing relative to ongoing global challenges and with respect to the welfare of all human beings but in particular women and children.
This series of screenprints was created by Home Affair's co-founders, Nanette Yannuzzi Macias and Arzu Ozkal. We invited women and caregivers to represent, in an image, what mothering means to them. Each participant was then asked to initiate how they wanted to be represented. We photographed them and created screen prints. Statements on each poster are by each person. There are a total of 12 images. These are three of those images.
This series intends to challenge mainstream representations of motherhood in the 21st century. Through a series of photo silkscreen prints, ‘Home Affairs’ traverses a wide terrain of experiences and cultures to capture the kind of challenges mothers face as cultural producers. Each woman in this series worked with Home Affairs to create an image that best represents their personal challenge in this regard.
Everything Else: They will Be Diamonds, Ade, Home Affairs Collective, Screenprint, 30 x 40 in.
Image Description: Black and white photograph of person in thick wooly hat looking out at us through hands splayed with fingers revealing slightly smiling lips and a bright eye. The hands have some large rings and wrists have lots of bracelets. The text over the image reads “At the end of it all they will be diamonds.” in gold font.
And Everything Else: What will Be, Nanette, Home Affairs Collective, Screenprints, 30 x 40 in.
Image Description: High contrast teal blue head covering surrounding the black and white face and background of a person looking out to the left, with gold text on top that reads, “What has been, what will be, and what remains.” A stocking going over the head partially shrouds the full visibility of the face, holding various rolled cloth objects to the side of their head.
And Everything Else: What will Be, Melissa, Home Affairs Collective, Screenprints, 30 x 40 in.
Image Description: Black and white photograph of a woman in a bathrobe, wearing a paper crown that says “MOM”, hunched over by the weight of a rake, broom, and other household tools with laundry tied to them, that form a massive yoke over her shoulders. A large bolt of curtain cloth - or is it a net? - hangs like a transparent cage over the yoke of tools. From the top, the upside down base of an office chair holds broccoli, fruit, kitchen towels, and other items that have been tied to the wheel spokes. A large cooking pot crowns the top of this massive assemblage, and it appears as though flames are rising out of it? Large turqoise text over the image reads, “WE ARE ONE AND NOT ONE ONCE UMBILICAL”.