Mireille Juchau

Louise Bourgeois’ sculptures of mothers shoot out breastmilk or trail newborns by umbilical cords. One tiny figure is pierced all over the head with pins. No wonder Rachel Cusk is drawn to the French–American artist, who’s fictionalised in Cusk’s …

Years ago, in a local medical pathology museum, I saw a large human bone with the remains of the spear that pierced it. Ever since I’ve wondered about that specimen’s history, and the label that failed to describe it. Bonny Cassidy’s Monument …

“I was ashamed to have called Mum.” Johanna, a successful painter, relays this to her friend Pax on the first page of Is Mother Dead. “It was against the rules and yet I’d done it.” The laws that govern this relationship between a woman …