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How can contemporary art reimagine the body of the mother in relation
to a feminist Christian conception of the divine? And, at the level of
culture, what might be the implications of the maternal body imaged as
ordinary, multiple, generative and divine?↵
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Following
movements in her own visual art practice, and traversing the discourses
of feminist theory, contemporary art and philosophy of religion, artist
and scholar Rebekah Pryor considers philosopher Luce Irigaray’s key
notions of sexuate difference, the sensible transcendental and “love at
work in thinking” on the way to proposing alternate artistic and
theological motifs of the maternal body and the divine for our time. ↵
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Five
new motifs emerge, challenging iconographic conventions and proposing
an expanded vision of the mother and the divine in feminist theology and
contemporary art.
Rebekah Pryor is a visual artist, curator and researcher at the University of Divinity, based in Melbourne, Australia.