In the Name of the Mother,Rosalyn D’Mello’s ongoing speculative artistic research, is an auto-theoretical ‘study’ of ‘art’ made by housewives, mid-wives, witches, mystics, and spinsters. Itis committed to understanding how these ‘outsider’ female artists engineered ways of belonging to themselves by locating their intellectual and creative agencies within the ‘privacy’ of the domestic. The Traminer Marmeladen-Almanach 2021-2022 is one manifestation of this research. Rosalyn invited the residents of Tramin, where she currently lives, to allow her to observe and study their jam-making process. She evolved an archive of jams made between 2021 and 2022, which were presented to audiences in Innsbruck and Tramin as part of a blind tasting.
In 2016, Rosalyn D’Mello initiated a long-term research project based on her visits to South Asian artists’ studios, which was subsequently aided by a research grant from the India Foundation for the Arts and Parijat Foundation. Her writing on the subject was published by OPEN and can be accessed here.
