About Mrs Roe
IF YOU PLANT YOUR SEED IN MY LAND THEN THE DECISION OF CULTIVATION IS MINE
MRS ROE explores what it means to be a womxn dislocated from the natural world through the lens of reproductive justice. She crafts ritualistic, eco-cultural performances that interrogate the power structures shaping femxle sexuality and reproduction.
The indigenous, medicinal plant knowledge once safeguarded by womxn has mutated into a patriarchal system of western medicine and criminalised abortion. MRS ROE employs folk ritual as a medium to re-examine this ancient knowledge and system of community care, co-existent with each other and our bacterial, animal, geological, botanical planet.
MRS ROE is the performative alter-ego of artist Kerry Lemon. ROE is the artist’s (unused) married name and its use was triggered in response to the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on the 24th June 2022.
Photo / Film: Alan Roe
Movement: Ella Turner - Company Skubbe
Voice: Jo Burke
Cape construction: Jane O'Sullivan