The Boys Are Alright

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Over two decades, Kim Dotty Hachmann has woven motherhood into her artistic practice—not as a subject observed from a distance, but as a lived condition, a method, and a medium. In The Boys Are Alright, Hachmann brings together video installation and photography created in collaboration with her two sons. Rather than hiding the chaos, interruptions, and emotional labor of caregiving, she stages them as central elements of artistic expression.

Now that her children have grown, The Boys Are Alright marks a moment of reflection. This solo exhibition revisits works in which they are the main characters, tracing the shifts in intimacy, power, and rhythm that time imposes on family life. It invites us to reconsider care—not as background noise to artmaking, but as a form of knowledge, insurgency, and creative force.

With humor and vulnerability, Hachmann challenges the myth of the isolated (often male) genius, replacing it with a practice grounded in observation and relationality. As the boys evolve into deeper self-awareness, her artistic identity enters a new phase—one shaped by new possibilities for life and creation.