(Re)production is a multi-element installation that examines the relationship between the body and the mechanisms of systemic subordination. The object, the video performance and the series of photographs are connected by a common visual and conceptual motif – milk.

The work is based on an analogy between the public debate on the demographic crisis and the industrial production of milk. This parallel, although shocking, reveals the instrumentalization of bodies – both human and animal – and their imprisonment in systemic requirements. Where are the limits of autonomy and self-determination in the context of the idea of ​​the “greater good”? Issues of fertility are reduced to functions subservient to social and economic goals, and (re)production becomes a guarantee of the system’s durability. The universality of the systemic mechanisms of expectations, control and exploitation illustrated by the installation raises the issues of individual experience forced into cultural frames and norms, which becomes a collective supra-species experience. ​

The object created from collected milk skins and burnt flaps of cow's milk goes beyond its materiality. It becomes a metaphor for a system based on repetition, in which the individual – trapped in a structure that seems to have no end – loses their autonomy. At the same time, the material evidence of the routine transforms a private and domestic experience into something permanent and ever-growing.

​MILK, SYNTHETIC LINE, 100 x 15 cm

The object, along with a video and a photo series, is part of a three-piece installation titled (Re)production.