Mothermilk

2016-2017

Video loop, 6 min

From the solo exhibition An Ocean Within An Ocean.

Curator: Sally Haftel Nave.

The video shows a recurring image of breast milk being poured to a kitchen sink from a baby’s

feeding bottle. Breast milk is, literally, an extension of the artist’s body. The repetition with

which it is poured to the sink, again and again, its nutritious and maternal potential going to

waste, enacts something of a rite of passage or a religious ceremony which signals the untying

of the inextricable bond between a mother and her child right after birth – the pain of rupture

and separation, the dissolving of a dependency.