Unbaby II (2025)

Unbaby II extends the artist’s earlier Unbaby series, turning the camera inward to examine the body as both subject and specimen. Working with 35mm and 120mm film, every stage—shooting, developing, printing, scanning—was undertaken by hand, underscoring the tactility of process and the intimacy of self-production.

The work positions self-portraiture as a site of rupture. Clinical framings reduce the body to fragments, echoing the depersonalized gaze of reproductive healthcare, while contorted poses and visceral gestures register the pain and isolation of abortion. Figures pressed beneath plastic suggest embryonic forms, collapsing the distinction between artist and miscarried cells.

Through these strategies, Unbaby II reimagines reproductive experience not as private trauma but as a formal language: a lexicon of fragmentation, containment, and embodiment that challenges how bodies in crisis are seen, mediated, and remembered.