Pregnancy is spoken about in terms of fruitfulness and multiplication.
But the fact of sexuality in that cycle is conveniently ignored. Also, the incapacity to reproduce is generally avoided or shunned. Bringing Up Baby , currently on show at the Castle, sets out to re-think those conventional representations of birth, pregnancy, infertility, motherhood, fatherhood, and childhood . And it manages to do this in some very beautiful, thoughtful, profound and eloquent ways. Curiously, it is ideas around sound, or the lack thereof, that resonate in my thoughts and impressions of this exhibition.