Katthy Cavaliere: exploring grief and mortality in a poignant retrospective

The late artist grieved through her work for her mother, who died of ovarian cancer three years before the same disease claimed Cavaliere herself. A retrospective that’s part of Mofo festival features her obsession with childhood and documenting herselfThrough her work, Katthy Cavaliere grieved for her mother. A 2010 video called nest features the Australian artist sitting atop a pile of her mother’s clothes and looking pensively out to sea; an homage to how the pair would often visi