{"id":64301,"date":"2025-10-09T19:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/64301\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:41:07","slug":"mother-verite-statue-celebrates-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/64301\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mother V\u00e9rit\u00e9&#8217; Statue Celebrates Mothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that in <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebae.com\/tags\/london\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">London<\/a>, you\u2019re literally twice as likely to find a statue of an animal than a named woman? (Let that sink in for a minute.) Thankfully, there\u2019s a powerful new figure taking up space. Meet Mother V\u00e9rit\u00e9, a seven-foot bronze monument to the unfiltered, unvarnished truth (hence the name) of the postpartum experience.<\/p>\n<p>Conceived by Chelsea Hirschhorn, CEO and founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/frida.co.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frida<\/a>, and brought to life by British <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebae.com\/art-design\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artist<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rayvenndclark_art\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rayvenn Shaleigha D\u2019Clark<\/a>, Mother V\u00e9rit\u00e9 is a testament to authentic representation. The statue was unveiled outside St. Mary\u2019s Hospital\u2019s Lindo Wing, a deeply symbolic location not only for its world-renowned maternity services, but also as a royal photo call spot. <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebae.com\/tags\/princess-diana\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Princess Diana<\/a> and Kate Middleton famously introduced the world to their <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebae.com\/tags\/the-royal-family\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">royal<\/a> offspring on these very steps.<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019Clark, whose work has featured at top London cultural institutions including the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum and the Saatchi Gallery, used advanced digital scans of diverse postpartum women to create her female form. The result is not an idealised goddess, but a universal mother: her body a map of resilience, creation and transformation. Every curve, scar and swelling is rendered with hyper-real accuracy, celebrated by a reflective bronze finish that refuses to erase detail. Cradling her newborn, she stands tall in Frida\u2019s disposable postpartum underwear, a quiet yet defiant emblem of a reality too often hidden away \u2013 even in 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>Mother V\u00e9rit\u00e9 will take up permanent residence in Portman Square from October 9, a bold and long-overdue tribute to the maternal form in London\u2019s public art landscape.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you know that in London, you\u2019re literally twice as likely to find a statue of an animal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,438,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-64301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}