• Left to right: Antepartum (1973) by Mary Kelly and Astralfields and Other Manifestations (2008) by Kelly Barrie, on display at the MCA for the 16th Biennale of Sydney 2008.
  Courtesy the artists. Photograph: Jenni Carter.
  

Mary Kelly
Born 1941 in Fort Dodge, Iowa, USA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA

Kelly Barrie
Born 1973 in London, England
Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA

Kelly Barrie was born in 1973, an unwitting participant in a major artistic project – his mother Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document (1973– 77). Kelly’s large-scale work visualises and analyses the mother–child relationship between herself and her son over a period of four years from his birth. In the late 1990s, Barrie began his own career as an artist. This exhibition brings together works by both artists, suggesting a form of time that overlaps and repeats, consciousness that spirals from one generation to the next – the work of Barrie echoing and yet moving away from his mother’s concerns. Kelly’s Antepartum (1973) is a document of her pregnancy; a close-up shot records her hand as she caresses her abdomen at full term. Barrie’s Astral Fields (2008) is a video-recording showing him holding flour tightly in his fist and then releasing it into the atmosphere.

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