Readings and Exhibition »Grapes and Seeds«

The author and photographer behind our photobook »A Second Beating Heart,« Rabea Edel, hosted a reading in her exhibition Grapes and Seeds alongside the artist Dongwan Kook, who came to Berlin from South Korea for the exhibition. It took place at einBuch Haus, a gallery and bookshop whose exhibitions all refer to a selected book. Edel and Kook’s show addressed motherhood, specifically a woman’s relationship to expressing motherhood through art. 

»A Second Beating Heart« is Edel’s auto-fictional documentary photography project that follows a new mother’s postpartum depression, and the healing that takes place in response to it. Photographs from the book were printed on large sheets of fabric displayed throughout the gallery alongside Kook’s drawings of a gestation period. Kook recited lines from her book, I am Three or Four or Five, followed by einBuch Haus’s Jae Kyung Kim who gave a talk, and later Edel read from her essay in the photobook. The exhibition was aimed to encourage women artists to break free from the taboos equating motherhood to an end of exhibiting. Edel and Kooks’ work was inspiring to witness and addressed the theme eloquently.