Dominique Rey presents: MOTHERGROUND

Dominique Rey. MOTHERGROUND, 2023. Video still.

This exhibition has been a long time in the making and has been a collaboration between Rey and WAG-Qaumajuq Head of Collections & Exhibitions, Riva Symko. MOTHERGROUND reflects Rey’s artistic practice – which spans photography, video, and sculpture – in parallel with fertility and maternity as forms of creative labour. Created with her kids, the performative images of MOTHERGROUND explore ideas of presence and absence, attachment and desire, blurring the corporeal and psychic edges that link mother and child.

Rey is a Franco-Manitoban artist who pushes the boundaries of photography and is a formidable fine artist in Canada, many of the large institutions across the country holding her work in their collections. Rey’s work has been exhibited across Canada, the United States, and Europe and she is the recipient of numerous awards and honours and is an associate professor at the University of Manitoba School of Art.