Birth Announcement Cards
31.10 – 20.12
For the group exhibition STRESS TEST. exploring fathering and fatherhood, KIOSK has been looking for birth announcement cards designed by artist-fathers to celebrate the birth of their own children.
The exhibition explores the relationship between fatherhood and artistic practice. While becoming a parent profoundly reshapes daily life, time, attention and artistic production, one of the very first creative acts after (or even before) a child's birth is often the design of a birth card.
Intimate in scale yet public in purpose, it announces the arrival of a new life while revealing something about the maker at a pivotal moment in their own.We would love to include a collection of these birth cards in the exhibition, bringing together many different approaches—from carefully crafted graphic designs to improvised photocopies, from understated gestures to exuberant visual statements. Together, they form a modest collective portrait of artists entering fatherhood.
