Mary Kelly developed a rigorous feminist conceptual practice around psychoanalysis, motherhood, labor and memory. Post-Partum Document used diagrams, text, stains and records from early motherhood to challenge conventional representations of maternal experience.
Installation; text; photography
Artist Films
Mary Kelly in Conversation with Rosalyn Deutsche | Live from the Whitney
Whitney Museum of American ArtOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Major Works
- 1973–79Post-Partum Document
- 1984–89Interim
- 1992Gloria Patri
- 2005–07Love Songs
- 2001The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi
- 2010Habitus
- 2004Circa Trilogy
- 2007Multi-Story House
- 1974Primapara
- 1976Document 4: Transitional Objects, Diary and Diagram
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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