Womb Wetware by Jiabao Li | Opening Night @ TIAT
A Solo Exhibition by Jiabao Li
July 30 - Aug 22 at TIAT ꨄ︎
7pm Door open
7:20pm artist talk
7:45pm blind milk tasting
Swim through tales of milk and blood. 🍼🩸
Womb Wetware enters the wet, unruly terrain of Jiabao Li’s feminist biohacking practice. Created during pregnancy, after birth, and through years of research with menstrual blood, these works approach the reproductive body as ancient wetware: intelligent, leaky, erotic, and alive.
Pregnancy, labor, caregiving, and menstruation are intimate experiences, filled with love, exhaustion, grief, wonder, and desire. But they are never only private. They are shaped by politics, economics, social expectation, and technological fantasy. A womb is never only one person’s womb. It is a site of national interest, a unit of capitalist production, and an object of scientific inquiry.
Here, the pregnant body becomes superhero, the AI becomes mother, the clitoris becomes sentient, and grief becomes cellular memory. The exhibition asks what it means to create life inside systems that seek to regulate, measure, and extract from reproduction. These works expose the invisible labor, emotional weight, and physical scars of making life.
Works on view: Super Mom Training Gym, AI Mom™, Baby Shark Tank, Braxton Hicks is Here, Sentient Clit: the Pussification of BioTech, Living Legacy, 4D Baby, Motherboard, Breast Making Breastmilk, Trash Can, Give me a Red Tape, Gift. ꨄ︎
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