Womb Wetware Closing & De-install Party

​this is your last chance to catch Jiabao Li's Womb Wetware before we'll de-install it, together! Dinner will be provided to those who help deinstall ꨄ︎

​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.

​The exhibition also received coverage from Forbes and the South China Morning Post ꨄ︎