Wrest

In Development

“It was a penetrating, relentless, unalterable thing, to be his mother, my life ending and beginning at once.” Cheryl Strayed

In a bus stop late at night, through an act of shocking violence, a woman splits in two. Her life ending and beginning at once. In the witching-hour, when monsters are born, a disturbing doppelgänger emerges.

WREST lays bare the feral, violent realities underlying the mundanity and monstrosity of early motherhood. In a sleep deprived state, in the stretch from dusk to disinfecting dawn, the mother watches herself fracture and split - her body no longer her own. Faced with this new reality, the doppelgänger hunts visions of its original self, determined to rebuild.

Exploding the tropes and traditions of motherhood in myth, film, horror, art history, and literature. Grappling with the art world’s disdain and disregard of stories of motherhood, and artists who are mothers. Told through ferocious physicality, surrealism, and humour.

"I had gone, but I didn’t know where, or if I would return. I thought early motherhood would be gentle, beatific, pacific, tranquil: bathed in a soft light. But actually it was hardcore, edge, gnarly. It wasn’t pale pink; it was brown of shit and red of blood. And it was the most political experience of my life, rife with conflict, domination, drama, struggle and power." Lucy Jones