J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Diana Karklin

Undo Motherhood is a boxed set of soft-covered trifold booklets titled after the predominant feelings identified by regretful mothers: anger, fear, isolation, exhaustion, guilt, resignation and acceptance. Karlkin’s investigation was driven by a single question: “If you knew then what you know now, would you have made a different choice?” Respectful, intimate imagery makes visible a continuum of ambivalence.In this conversation, Diana discusses, among other things:Ideology of motherhoodCollective imaginationMaternal reckoningMulticultural expectationsInnovating approaches to achieve neutralityVisually exploring vulnerabilityThe language of imagesDismantling narrativesReferenced in the episodeUnderbau [m]otherhoodSingapore International Photography Festival Marina Carpena Meyer Elinor Carucci — Mother (2013)Carmen Winant — My Birth (2018)Sheila Heti — Motherhood (2018)Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne RichThe Lost Daughter film (2021) The Lost Daughter by Elena FerranteScreaming on the Inside by Jessica Grose“Regretful Mothers” by Anne Kingston, Maclean’s“Women who wish they weren’t mothers” by Diana Karklin, The Guardian 1854 Photography on Undo Motherhood, British Journal of PhotographyPublished by Schilt PublishingDiana’s Instagram

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