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No Lactation without the T, 2025

Fabric, human milk, pole-dance bars

140 x 800 cm

unique

courtesy of the artist

images © Katya Ev Anton, Joost Joossen / We Document Art

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

"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.

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

Body of works "Lactating Bodies"

Katya Ev (ekaterina vasilyeva), Untitled (the dwell), view of the show at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2010
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25 - Katya Ev anton_Untitled (Me), color etching (gravure)-2©️Katya Ev Anton_edited_edited
27 - Katya Ev Anton_Untitled (Oculus), print, lightbox©️Katya Ev Anton.jpg
18 - Katya Ev Anton_Untitled (Aries), print on poster paper©️Katya Ev Anton.jpg
6 - Katya Ev Anton_Lactating Bodies_CC Strombeek-6©️Katya Ev Anton.jpg
16 - Katya Ev Anton_Untitled (Altar), print on poster paper-left©️Katya Ev Anton.jpg
24 - Katya Ev Anton_Untitled (_sa mere_), graffiti on levkas©️Katya Ev Anton.jpg
40 - Katya Ev Anton_Virgo Lactans, KANAL-CentrePompidou©️Katya Ev Anton.jpg
13 - Katya Ev Anton_Untitled (Idol), carrara marble©️Katya Ev Anton.jpg
22 - Katya Ev Anton_Untitled (N.V.G.), oil pastel on paper©️Katya Ev Anton.jpeg
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21 - Katya Ev Anton_No Lactation Without The T, detail©️Joost Joossen _ We Document Art.jp
14 - Katya Ev Anton_Untitled (Cube), oil pastel on paper, detail©️Katya Ev Anton.jpg
29 - Katya Ev Anton_Lactatio!, wall labe
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Related exhibitions

2 - Katya-Ev-Anton_Lactating-Bodies_CC-Strombeek-2©️Joost-Joossen-We-Document-Art(web).jpg
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Duo exhibition Yes, it is Bread we fight for, but we fight for Roses, too, 2025

Group exhibition Over my (dead) body, 2019

(c) Katya Ev Anton (ekaterina vasilyeva), 2025

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