By Zixin Shang
(MoM remote gallery project 2026)
Milk Futures: Kinship in the Age of Technology explores the intersections of reproductive technologies, social regulation, parent–child relationships and cross-cultural perspectives. It reflects on how the meanings of childbirth and motherhood are being reconsidered as technological acceleration and institutional shifts reshape our daily realities.
While artificial intelligence and biomedical technologies expand the possibilities of reproduction and maternal practices, acts such as breastfeeding still profoundly shape the relationships between parents and children, as well as broader family structures. As an artist and curator from East Asia currently based in the United States, I reflect on how different cultural contexts understand the roles of the female body. This project also raises a critical question: as reproductive methods are increasingly transformed by technological advancement, how can we preserve the natural bonds rooted in bodily experience and family relationships? When legal restraints intersect with technological interventions, the maternal body is not only a nurturer but also a site of objectification and political contestation.
Milk Futures brings together six female artists from diverse national and cultural backgrounds. Encompassing sculpture, video, painting and performance, their work interrogates the evolving landscape of breastfeeding, kinship and the political occupation of the maternal body within public and legal domains.These works present the multifaceted nature of motherhood in contemporary life. The exhibition highlights the maternal body as a site of nourishment and care, while also exploring how kinship is precariously sustained within social spaces defined by constraint and deprivation.
This exhibition connects individual experiences with cross-cultural perspectives and confronts the viewer to reconsider: in an era of globalization and rapid technological development, are the meanings of “nature” and “family” beginning to change? When the maternal body as the very source of nourishment is strangled by legal structures and political pressure, who ultimately determines its autonomy?
Chinese Statement
《Milk Futures：技术时代的亲缘关系》探讨了生殖技术、社会规训、亲子关系以
及跨文化视角之间的交汇。它反思在技术加速发展与制度结构不断变迁的当下
，分娩与母职的意义如何被重新定义。
当人工智能与生物医学技术不断拓展生殖与母职实践的可能性时，诸如母乳喂
养这样的行为，仍深刻塑造着亲子关系以及更广泛的家庭结构。作为一名来自
东亚、现居美国的艺术家与策展人，我反思不同文化语境中对于女性身体角色
的理解。本项目也提出一个关键问题：当生殖方式在技术推动下不断转变，我
们如何保留那些植根于身体经验与家庭关系之中的“自然联结”？当法律限制
与技术介入交织时，母体不仅是滋养的来源，也成为被物化与政治争夺的场域
。
《Milk Futures》汇集了六位来自不同国家与文化背景的女性艺术家。她们通过雕
塑、影像、绘画与行为等多种媒介，探讨母乳喂养、亲缘关系以及母体在公共
与法律语境中的政治占据。这些作品呈现了当代社会中母职经验的多重面向。
展览强调母体作为滋养与照护之源，同时也揭示亲缘关系如何在被限制与剥夺
所定义的社会空间中变得脆弱而不稳定。
本次展览将个体经验与跨文化视角相连接，并邀请观者重新思考：在全球化与
技术高速发展的时代，“自然”与“家庭”的意义是否正在发生改变？当作为
生命滋养之源的母体在法律结构与政治压力下被压制时，其自主权究竟由谁来
决定？