Troubling maternal subjectivity and queering notions of kinship, Mother Me Meanly intends to warp paradigms of motherhood, embracing “bad moms” for their inherent complexity. The exhibition presents mother figures as fragmented, dualistic, and contradictory—swollen with love, pain, and desire. They are shapeshifters and scapegoats. They are vectors for trauma and agents for transformation. The artists included in the exhibition adopt the monster mother’s self-indulgent, self-preserving, and hyperbolic “flaws” as they are inherently anchored to what it means to be human, living in a body.