Jennifer Georgescu
Mother Series
July 9 - 30, 2022
Blue Sky is pleased to announce Mother Series, an exhibition of photographs by Jennifer Georgescu.
In 2015, I became a mother. I was prepared for the grueling labor, and sleepless nights, but the loss of my sense of self came as a surprise. I had no time to think and I began to feel like a shell of a person. My early days of motherhood were alienating and awful as well as sentimental and dear. I began to see myself as defined only by a relationship.
I felt that my son was an appendage of myself; the embodiment of self and other. It was hard to accept that he was a growing, changing person while I was to remain forever split. When he is near my thoughts are entangled around him and when I am away I cannot seem to be the person I was before.
A child is how we remain on Earth; they are our legacies. As I see my son grow I feel my time begin to speed up; I feel my decay. When we think about birth we must realize our death. Motherhood is precious and raw; wonderful and dark.
Zoom Artist Talk, Thursday, July 14
Jennifer Georgescu (American, b. 1984) is a multimedia artist whose projects analyze the dualisms that exist in language, relationships, mythologies and control. Her lifelong interest in what makes us human is reflected by emotionally charged, conceptual photographic constructions. "I often search for the balance that exists in between these dichotomies. This is how I view humanity; always teetering on the line between fiction and reality, domination and submissiveness, self and other."
A US artist based in Basel, Switzerland, her bodies of art have been published worldwide including: Lenscratch, Aint Bad, Don’t Smile, the Missouri Review, Silvershotz, SHUTR magazine, and PHOTO+. Recent exhibitions include the Athens Photo Festival, Startup Art Fair LA, The Oceanside Museum of Art, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, The Baldwin Photographic Gallery, and Center for Fine Art Photography.