The feminist art collective MATERNAL FANTASIES uses rotational authorship, immersive site related residences, mixed autobiographical and historical references as methods for creating critical artworks around the institution of motherhood. Mothering is not exclusive to a physical and fixed category or identity, but instead represents dedicated time, attention, nurturance, protection, and an interrupted state of mind, which gives rise to a distinctive discipline of thoughts.

Composed of 7 interdisciplinary artists | mothers and 10 children, we explore constructions around the theme, in a broader spectrum of care work, stretching tensions between social invisibility and fantastical visibility. In our film experiments, we propose new vocabularies and visual performative translations of the maternal experience with the goal of integrating intergenerational knowledge, connecting female ancestral discourses to our own stories and to future narratives of our children.