Jamie Diamond: Monstra Te Esse Matrem, 2026

When:
Tuesday, Feb 10, 2026 12:00a -
Tuesday, Jul 28, 2026 11:30p

Where:
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
25 Evans Way
Boston, MA 02115

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Admission:
FREE

Hosted by:
isgm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Categories:
Art, Photoworthy

Event website:
https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/exhibition/jamie-diamond-monstra-te-esse-matrem-2026

All of us play roles every day. For some, that role is “mother.” But no person inhabits a single role, and no person can play their roles perfectly at all times.


When she was eight years old, Gardner Artist-in-Residence Jamie Diamond witnessed her own mother's mask come off. This drove Diamond to write a letter to herself, outlining what kind of mother she would be. That letter marked the beginning of her engagement with the concept of motherhood, fraught with contradictory societal expectations, glorified and belittled.


Diamond’s work for the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade, outside of the Gardner Museum, is the latest manifestation of this exploration. In Monstra Te Esse Matrem (show yourself to be a mother), Diamond, now a mother herself, challenges the idealization of motherhood with an image that is both self-portrait and fantasy, asking: what does it mean to be a mother?  




Image: Jamie Diamond: Monstra Te Esse Matrem, 2026 [rendering] © Jamie Diamond. Image courtesy of Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston 


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