Coralina Rodriguez Meyer: Mother Mold Project & Mama Spa Botánica

Curated by Taylor Bradley • Bronx River Art Center, October 30 - December 12.

Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Quipucamayoc (urban designer, culture keeper, community organizer) artist Coralina Rodriguez Meyer. The social-practice project, titled Mother Mold Project & Mama Spa Botánica, documents the birthing justice crisis in American BIPOC communities through sculpture, photography, and tableau installation.

Rodriguez Meyer’s multi-generational and multi-national collaborative project confronts the rising rate of infant and maternal mortality in the Americas. As Mama Spa Botánica collaborator Doula Nicky Dawkins characterized the crisis, “hospitals do to Black and Brown women on the birthing bed what cops do to our men on the street.” By celebrating ancestral survival traditions in birthing-justice childbirth seminars, sculpture, and photography, the work memorializes people and rituals that have been subjugated and undermined in colonial mythologies. The exhibition encompasses immersive multimedia maternity tableaux of the photographic series, Linea Negra (2008-ongoing) and the sculpture series, Mother Molds (2020-ongoing) which Rodriguez Meyer produced from Mama Spa Botánica workshops.