Jamie Martinez: My Mother's Labor: The Machines transforms the gallery into a kinetic tableau bridging domestic intimacy and industrial production, centered on a white Singer sewing machine — the artist's mother's actual machine, which stitched together their family's American immigrant life. Performing throughout the exhibition's run, its mechanical repetitions become a near-sacred choreography, a living monument to unseen maternal labor. A monumental inflatable replica breathes and undulates against the gallery wall — inflating and deflating like exhausted lungs — placing the weight of physical memory in dialogue with the ephemeral. Painting, sculpture, and drawing complete the immersive environment.
