Documentation link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16PMm3EBzTBR8wl2iFNPtNrpXDLCC4ncm/view?usp=sharing
Bio-box is a drawing installation that is chosen for this exhibition due to my recent experience of becoming a mother. It teases motherhood as a form of mechanical labour within an increasingly automated and productivity-driven patent file of a dysfunctional incubator. It considers care, gestation, feeding, cleaning, and maintenance as essential forms of labour that sustain society as a larger system, while often remaining invisible because they do not produce measurable or marketable commodities.
Clear acetate, a ground of the image similar to our digital screens and monitors, where we get most of our knowledge and information these days, represents the transparency and accessibility promised by the internet and digital systems, while black and white paint disrupts this transparency through opacity, congestion, and visual interference. Together, these materials create a tension between visibility and concealment, access and obstruction, production and waste.
The work connects this tension to the growing role of machines in reorganizing how labour and value are understood. By placing motherhood between human and machinic labour, the work questions what society chooses to recognize as productive, valuable, or necessary—and what gets overlooked or dismissed as excess or waste.
