Koch x Bos Gallery

Technique: Silkscreens, mixed media, carpet

Size: 300 x 600 x 400 cm

Authenticity: Work signed by the artist

Edition: Unique work

Price range: € 50.000 - € 75.000

Status: for sale

Labour of Love, 2022

The collaboration between Maple and the gallery dates back to 2011 and this is one of her most impressive works to date. In 'Labour of Love' Maple recorded the number of times her newborn baby was fed over three months - this totaled 650 times. She then screen printed 650 pictures of herself and her baby and hand finished each one to represent a feed. In each image the baby remains intact but Maple is obscured in a number of ways; from collage to paint to discarded breast pads. Each image moves between gentle, funny, angry and frustrated. In a performance during Art Rotterdam, Maple wrote the feed number on each card. The final installation consists of 650 unique hand finished works and a large carpet. Koch x Bos Gallery previously presented the installation at Art Rotterdam 2022 and received a lot of positive responses. Some viewers - from their thirties to seventies - were moved to tears. With 'Labour of Love', Sarah Maple makes an urgent statement about motherhood, unpaid work and the work feminism still has to do.