(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 supra-species collective experience. ​

In the video performance, the woman attempts to adapt to the role imposed on her by the system – a heterosexual reproducer. Pieces of burnt milk create a mask that symbolically takes away her individuality. A mask that obscures and unifies, eliminates the diversity of desires – both of mothers and non-mothers. The process that the performer struggles with refers to the mechanisms of social pressure that construct a collective pattern based on the myth of the maternal instinct.

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