Katya Ev Anton, Untitled (Aries)

Untitled (Aries), 2025

Inkjet print on poster paper, display case from the building of the Fondation de l’Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (Public Assistance – Hospitals Foundation)

92 x 72 cm

1 + 1 AP

Photogram taken from a video recording produced during a residency at KANAL–Centre Pompidou, Brussels

courtesy of the artist

image © Katya Ev Anton

view of the solo exhibition Lactating Bodies 20251031-0201, CC Strombeek (Be), 2025

"These images - Untitled (Aries) and Untitled (Fathia) - stem from a performance research project led by the artist, documenting participants in the KANAL-Centre Pompidou residency (2023). The result of an act of observation, they transcend their documentary status to become works of art. Borrowing from the visual language of religious paintings, notably Titian, they depict a cis woman and a trans woman using a breast pump. By diverting this iconography from the male gaze, the artist exposes the taboos surrounding the maternal body, care, and productivity. Displayed in notice boards with an administrative aesthetic from the 1980s, the works evoke public institutions more than museums, blurring the boundaries between the private and the institutional, as well as the profane and the sacred". Azad Asifovich, Melanie Weill, translation Siena Muller

Body of works "Lactating Bodies"