A mine, an anatomical theatre, and a witches kitchen; Encountering the uterus as a contested site of extraction, (re)production, and transformation. Tracing the deep entanglements between metallurgy, witchcraft, and medicine. Extractivist mining of mother earth and medical anatomist practices of dissection deemed the female body exploitable for the benefit of capitalist labour systems that mechanize the uterus as an object of (re)production. Within this assemblage of nests of care, labour and exploitation, the mechanisation of bodies and landscapes is contested through the reclamation of ancestral knowledges, rituals of care, potion-making, and microbial cultivation. The installation inhabits the entangled boundaries of production and exploitation, growth and decay, resistance and transformation.
Exhibited at ‘BATTLEAXE’, Unit2, Stleonards, UK Oct2025
hand forged gynecological tools, irrigation system of abortifacient potions and bacterial cultures, mugwort, steel ring, printed leaf with ‘anatomical model’, poppy seed, dragonfly