Lactating Bodies 20251031-0201
This autumn, Katya Ev Anton presents their inaugural solo exhibition Lactating Bodies 20251031-0201 at CC Strombeek
31/10/2025 – 01/02/2026
Public opening: Friday 31/10, 18-21h
Press preview: Friday 31/10, 11h
“Lactating Bodies is an overdue and immensely important endeavor that makes this lactation labor perceptible. Ev’s project reveals that making milk is work and that the women who produce it often do it against all odds in a society that discriminates against them and does very little to concretely support them.”
– Mathilde Cohen
Lactating Bodies 20251031-0201 is the inaugural solo exhibition of Katya Ev Anton. The project unfolds through a constellation of works: visual pieces (installation, sculpture, pictorial works), in situ interventions, a participatory score, and hospitality dispositif extending an open invitation to lactating people of all backgrounds, including those outside the artistic field.
Rooted in Ev’s personal experience of lactation and nourished by four years of artistic research and dialogue with other lactating persons, the project unfolds as a visual manifesto. From a queer, non-binary perspective, Ev challenges the invisibility and idealization of lactation: long represented through male-dominated iconographies of Virgo Lactans, and reclaims it as lived, shared, and political experience.
Lactating Bodies is an ongoing project, developed during a residency at KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Brussels, in 2023.
Curated by Azad Asifovich
Commissioned by Charlotte Crevits, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek
Advisory / outside eye: Ann Hoste, Ivan Isaev, Elizaveta Konovalova, Lulù Nuti, Carnelian Seville, Julie Van Elslande, Tobias Van Royen (TWIIID), Melanie Weill
With the support of:
the Flemish Government (de Vlaamse Gemeenschap)
the Flemish Community Commission (VGC)
Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles
Jubilee – platform for artistic research
Address:
Cultuurcentrum Strombeek
Gemeenteplein 1
1853 Strombeek
Belgium