What will you remember? Blog review of Home Truths at MOCP

“And, save for “Gazelle”, the 2012 video by Katie Murray, the work in this show is almost uniformly humorless.  In the video, Murray struggles through an exercise routine on a “Gazelle “ elliptical machine, to the televised videotape of a clueless male trainer, while one child is clinging to her back and another clasped to her front.  At the end, we cut to a film clip of an African Gazelle prevailing against two attacking tiger cubs, finally breaking free and running away.  Murray succeeds in balancing honesty and wit, persevering while performing a tricky juggling act recognizable to any mother.  I think the greatest weakness of “Home Truths” is that, while motherhood engenders a range of often conflicting emotions and desires – sometimes simultaneously, as in Murray’s film – most of the work here is skewed to the serious and painful end of the spectrum, to its detriment.  If viewed in isolation, it could be a very effective form of birth control.”  Elin Spring