Katya Ev Anton: Lactating Bodies 20251031-0201
On view: 31 October 2025 – 1 February 2026
CC Strombeek, Gemeenteplein, 1853 Grimbergen, Belgium
CC Strombeek presents Lactating Bodies: 20251031-0201, an exhibition by Katya Ev Anton that explores milk as an epistemological metaphor.
Lactating Bodies 20251031-0201 is the first 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 facilities 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 the Virgo Lactans, and reclaims it as lived, shared, and political experience.
Curated by IKT Member Azad Asifovich
Commissioned by Charlotte Crevits.
Lactating Bodies is an ongoing project, developed during a residency at KANAL–Centre Pompidou, Brussels, in 2023. With support of: the Flemish Government, the Flemish Community Commission (VGC), Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Kanal Centre Pompidou, Jubilee — platform for artistic research, École Nature Conscience et Chamanisme.