katyaev anton
(ekaterina vasilyeva)

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

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"Halfway between manifesto and slogan, this work explores the political power of language and wordplay as tools for social transformation. Presented as a banner rolled between two chrome pole-dance bars, it evokes both sacred scrolls and contemporary tools for public protest. The inscription, written in human milk donated to the artist on a milky-colored fabric, appears only through transparency, as a stain: “No lactation without the T.” Both enigmatic and assertive, the phrase echoes the slogan “No LGB without the T,” calling for a trans-inclusive reading of feminist and queer struggles, while playing on the symbolism of the letter T — cross, intersection, meeting point.

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The inscription, dripping across the fabric like a trace left by breastfeeding bodies, anchors itself in the artist’s lived experience: milk becomes stain. The stain is thus a gesture of resistance, transforming fragility into strength and turning the body into a living archive, an anchor, a language. By engaging bodily substance in the act of writing, the artist aligns with activist movements that assert the visibility of human milk and the right to display the nursing body without shame". Azad Asifovich, Melanie Weill, translation Siena Muller